Well, thanks everyone! I'm just barely smart enough to do so but that
is exactly why I asked first!
Yes, I really do have tapes that old. Is that unusual?
I backup up a LOT of linux and unix machines and now Mac laptops and
servers. I guess it all just adds up after awhile. This also explains
why a couple years ago I had to move the log directory to a different
partition because it was overfilling the one it was originally on.
Paul
->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Gene Heskett--
>
> On Thursday 19 June 2008, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> >Do people routinely clean up the log directory? I'm up to about 82
> >gigs. I think it is time. Do I really care about log "log.20060512.0"
> >anymore?
> >
> >Paul
>
> Wow! Amanda, by design, is supposed to clean those up when the tape is
> over-written, and generally has done that here over the last 7 or 8 years.
> You
> may want to look at your install, make sure these logs are indeed where the
> amanda.conf tells it to put them for starters.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Of course, some people consider hidden bugs to _be_ fixed. I don't believe
> in that particulat philosophy myself.
>
> - Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel
->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Dustin J. Mitchell--
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Paul Yeatman
> <pyeatman AT mamacass.ucsd DOT edu> wrote:
> > Do people routinely clean up the log directory? I'm up to about 82
> > gigs. I think it is time. Do I really care about log "log.20060512.0"
> > anymore?
>
> Those logfiles are Amanda's tape catalog. Amanda should be cleaning
> out the logs that correspond to overwritten tapes. Do you have tapes
> that old?
>
> Dustin
>
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->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Paul Bijnens--
>
> On 2008-06-20 03:37, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> >Do people routinely clean up the log directory? I'm up to about 82
> >gigs. I think it is time. Do I really care about log "log.20060512.0"
> >anymore?
>
> If you remove those files manually, than Amanda cannot locate older
> backups anymore with "amadmin x find". When Amanda does not need
> them anymore, Amanda moves them to the subdir "oldlog".
>
> And only from that "oldlog" directory you may remove them if you need the
> diskspace. I keep them to as data for historical evolution of
> my backups like backup sizes, times dumpspeed, tapespeed etc.
>
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_log_files/Trace_Logs
>
>
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