Hi This is not realy an amanda problem but I thought one of you may have seen this problems before.
We have a filesytem which contians files that are basically static. However when they are backed up the incrementals are almost as big as the full backups. server> amadmin sir-1 info advisor1 /advisor/video Current info for advisor1 /advisor/video: Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 2270.0, 2231.0, 2274.0 Incremental: 2119.0, 2250.0, 2275.0 compressed size, Full: 62.1%, 62.1%, 62.1% Incremental: 66.6%, 66.6%, 66.6% Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs 0 20030618 sir-1-20 54 10650330 6617775 2915 1 20030703 sir-1-10 7 9873700 6578667 3104 This happens with dump and gntar backups. If I do a find on the filesystem it claims that no files have been modified in the last 90 days. advisor1:/tmp/amanda # find /advisor/video/* -type f -mtime -90 -ls advisor1:/tmp/amanda # dump --version dump: invalid option -- - dump 0.4b26 (using libext2fs 1.26 of 3-Feb-2002) usage: dump [-0123456789acMnqSu] [-B records] [-b blocksize] [-d density] [-e inode#,inode#,...] [-E file] [-f file] [-h level] [-I nr errors] [-j zlevel] [-s feet] [-T date] [-z zlevel] filesystem dump [-W | -w] advisor1:/tmp/amanda # tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.18 Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the file named COPYING for details. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. advisor1:/tmp/amanda # cat /etc/SuSE-release SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386) VERSION = 8.0 advisor1:/tmp/amanda # uname -a Linux advisor1 2.4.20 #1 SMP Fri Jan 10 15:32:51 GMT 2003 i686 unknown advisor1:/tmp/amanda # df -h /advisor/video/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 17G 11G 6.0G 63% /advisor/video advisor1:/tmp/amanda # mount -v | grep /advisor/video /dev/sda2 on /advisor/video type ext3 (rw) Anthony Worrall School IT Networking Coordinator School of Systems Engineering The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 225 Reading, Berkshire, UK RG6 6AY Tel: +44 (0)118 931 8610 Fax: +44 (0)118 975 1822 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]