Msiipola,

Try with 'taperflush 100'

Jean-Louis

Msiipola wrote:

I' trying to utilize tapes better by using a holdingdisk and by setting i
amanda.conf:
flush-threshold-dumped 100
flush-threshold-scheduled 100
taperflush 0

But looks like amanda does not take any notice about these settings.
Instead a dump is done to tape every time amdump is executed.

Any ideas what's wrong?

In the amanda.conf I have:
flush-threshold-dumped 100
flush-threshold-scheduled 100
taperflush 0

--------------------------------------------------------
Mail log from amdump:

Hostname: backup
Org     : HiQ
Config  : daily
Date    : September 28, 2009

These dumps were to tape HIQ-10.
The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to use are: HIQ-11, HIQ-12.


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Incr.
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:35
Run Time (hrs:min)         2:28
Dump Time (hrs:min)        1:34       0:01       1:33
Output Size (meg)       49867.4     1154.7    48712.7
Original Size (meg)     49867.4     1154.7    48712.7
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --    (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped            7          4          3   (1:3)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      9037.2    22907.4     8909.4

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:15       0:00       0:14
Tape Size (meg)         49867.4     1154.7    48712.7
Tape Used (%)              12.5        0.3       12.2   (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped             7          4          3   (1:3)
   (level:#chunks ...)
Chunks Taped                  7          4          3   (1:3)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 58337.2    51128.2    58532.8

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label        Time      Size      %    Nb    Nc
  HIQ-10       0:15 51064180K   12.5     7     7


NOTES:
  planner: tapecycle (13) <= runspercycle (28)
  planner: Last full dump of backup.mod.fus39a:/space/rsync_copy/hiq on tape
HIQ-7 overwritten in 5 runs.
  planner: Last full dump of backup.mod.fus39a:/space/rsync_copy/sim on tape
HIQ-3 overwritten in 3 runs.
  planner: Last full dump of backup.mod.fus39a:/space/rsync_copy/usr on tape
HIQ-5 overwritten in 4 runs.
  planner: Full dump of backup.mod.fus39a:/usr/local promoted from 27 days
ahead.
  planner: Full dump of backup.mod.fus39a:/var/log promoted from 27 days
ahead.
  planner: Full dump of backup.mod.fus39a:/home promoted from 27 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of backup.mod.fus39a:/etc promoted from 27 days ahead.
  taper: tape HIQ-10 kb 51064180 fm 7 [OK]
  big estimate: backup.mod.fus39a /space/rsync_copy/hiq 1
                est: 2748480K    out 1881010K
  big estimate: backup.mod.fus39a /space/rsync_copy/sim 1
                est: 1160992K    out 606740K

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                       DUMPER STATS               TAPER
STATS

HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s

-------------------------- -------------------------------------
-------------
backup.mod.f /etc        0   29190   29190    --     0:08 3817.7   0:01
53167.8
backup.mod.f /home       0  433880  433880    --     0:16 27856.9   0:07
64317.7
backup.mod.f -c_copy/hiq 1 1881010 1881010    --    22:21 1403.0   0:41
46212.6
backup.mod.f -c_copy/sim 1  606740  606740    --    12:46  791.6   0:10
60737.3
backup.mod.f -c_copy/usr 1 47394020 47394020    --    58:12 13573.7  13:22
59131.0
backup.mod.f /usr/local  0  681920  681920    --     0:27 25447.3   0:15
44605.7
backup.mod.f /var/log    0   37420   37420    --     0:02 23400.6   0:01
68816.2

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