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Steven Settlemyre wrote:

I am looking to restore a disk from one of my machines and am having a little trouble understanding which report to believe. Using amadmin find, I see there was a level 0 on 4/12 and again on 4/19.

When I look at the daily reports I see on 4/12:

pop:/files1.0 in-memory

taper: no split_diskbuffer specified: using fallback split size of 10240kb to buffer

and

HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------- pop /files1 0 17024192 9961504 58.5 178:38 926.5 178:39 929.4

Then on 4/19 i see:

NOTES:
 planner: Incremental of pop:/files1 bumped to level 3.

and

HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------- pop /files1 0 17089120 9965664 58.3 148:35 1117.9 30:39 5418.9

So is 4/19 a level 3 or level 0?

Also, in the amadmin find, I see that 4/12 has 973 parts, whereas 4/19 only has 2 parts.

4/12 has 973 parts of 10240kb
4/19 has 2 parts of a bigger size. What is your tape_splitsize?

4/19 go through the holding disk and use part of size tape_splitsize.

Why the big difference? What could cause such things? and what steps should i take to restore this disk?

As usual, amrecover or amfetchdump.

Jean-Louis