Amanda-Users

Re: Amanda always doing full backup?

2009-05-14 15:48:57
Subject: Re: Amanda always doing full backup?
From: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>
To: Jeffrey D Anderson <JDAnderson AT lbl DOT gov>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:35:19 -0400
Jeffrey D Anderson wrote:
Perhaps the solution is not in changing the planner behavior, but in taper options. It would be acceptible to me if amanda wrote most of the holding disk files to tape, but elected to save some for the next night if it meant better allocation of media.

Look at the autoflush, flush-threshold-dumped, flush-threshold-scheduled and taperflush options

Jean-Louis