On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:36:40AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > you'll need to work with the "bumpsize" and "bumpmult" entries in > amanada.conf. > mine are set to 100Mb and 2 respectivly. This seems to give me level 3 > or 4 on my heavily used filesystems for most of the week. > > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:09:20AM -0700, Dege, Robert C. wrote: > > > > > >>My config: > >>Redhat 9.0 > >>Amanda version 2.4.4p1 > >> > >>I'm slightly concerned with my backups. I'm backingup a central NFS > >>server > >>for my UNIX network. Using disklist, I broke the NFS share into 21 > >>separate > >>sections. I did this so that I could benefit from higher dump levels on > >>sections that are used less. > >> > >>I've been running amanda for the past 2 weeks, but only have dump levels > >>of > >>zero, or one. I ran 2 backups over labor day weekend, and _STILL_ am > >>unable > >>to achieve a dump level higher than 1. And the amreports show no dump > >>level > >>bump adjustments. > >> > >>I guess my question is "why isn't amanda using higher dump levels on > >>sections where the data hasn't changed?" > >> > >> > > > >When it calculates the size of the next dump level it doesn't feel it > >saves a sufficient amount of tape/size/time/??? to warrent bumping the > >level. > > > >I've never played with them, but there are a couple of parameters that > >affect what is "sufficient". > > > >My systems seldom do level 2's either. Of course that makes recovery > >simpler. > >Two tapes rather than three. > > > >
"bumpdays" may be a factor here as well. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
