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Amanda always doing full backup?

2009-05-14 09:45:26
Subject: Amanda always doing full backup?
From: Brandon Metcalf <brandon AT geronimoalloys DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:32:16 -0500 (CDT)
I recently changed my config from

  dumpcycle 4 weeks
  runspercycle 20
  tapecycle 25 tapes

to

  dumpcycle 2 weeks
  runspercycle 12
  tapecycle 50 tapes

backups are working fine, but I'm confused by the following output
which is just an example of one device:

  $ amadmin DailySet1 find quercus sda8

  date       host    disk lv tape or file file part status
  2009-04-23 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-04    5   -- OK
  2009-04-24 quercus sda8  1 DailySet1-05    5   -- OK
  2009-04-25 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-06    5   -- OK
  2009-04-28 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-07    6   -- OK
  2009-04-29 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-08    6   -- OK
  2009-04-30 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-09    6   -- OK
  2009-05-01 quercus sda8  1 DailySet1-10    6   -- OK
  2009-05-02 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-11    6   -- OK
  2009-05-05 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-12    6   -- OK
  2009-05-06 quercus sda8  1 DailySet1-13    6   -- OK
  2009-05-07 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-14    6   -- OK
  2009-05-08 quercus sda8  1 DailySet1-15    6   -- OK
  2009-05-09 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-16    6   -- OK
  2009-05-10 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-17    6   -- OK
  2009-05-12 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-18    6   -- OK
  2009-05-13 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-19    6   -- OK
  2009-05-14 quercus sda8  0 DailySet1-20    6   -- OK

It seems that for the last fews days Amanda is doing a full backup
every night.  The filesystem on sda8 contains only the lost+found
directory and it or its contents are not changing.

However, according to the backup report, incrementals are definitely
happening:


  STATISTICS:
                            Total       Full      Incr.
                          --------   --------   --------
  Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:22
  Run Time (hrs:min)         0:57
  Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:32       0:23       0:10
  Output Size (meg)        7173.5     6151.5     1022.0
  Original Size (meg)     15388.1    10798.0     4590.0
  Avg Compressed Size (%)    46.6       57.0       22.3   (level:#disks ...)
  Filesystems Dumped           17         15          2   (1:2)
  Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      3791.0     4639.5     1804.5

  Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:13       0:11       0:02
  Tape Size (meg)          7173.8     6151.8     1022.1
  Tape Used (%)               4.1        3.5        0.6   (level:#disks ...)
  Filesystems Taped            17         15          2   (1:2)

  Chunks Taped                  0          0          0
  Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  9187.6     9193.1     9154.3

  USAGE BY TAPE:
    Label              Time      Size      %    Nb    Nc
    DailySet1-20       0:13  7346016K    4.1    17     0

So, I guess my question has to do with interpreting the output from
'amadmin find'.  Do the '0s' indicated full backups?


-- 
Brandon

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