On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:10:08AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 at 4:52pm, matilda matilda wrote > > >until yesterday I thought I understand amanda roughly, but now I'm not > >sure anymore. > >I thought that the planner tries to put as much as possible from all DLE > >to the tape. > >I just installed a new tape drive with big tapes which should be big > >enough to hold > >a full dump of all systems every day at the moment. > > > >So, why does the planner schedule incremental dumps when he could do full > >dumps? > > Amanda's goal is *not* to fill the tapes every night. Its goal is for the > backups each night to be the same size. >
If you want more data each dump, shorten your dumpcycle. Even down to zero which will cause full dumps each run. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)