We are running Amanda 3.2.0 on three CentOS 5.5 systems. We have one large (1.5TB total) file system for data (/data), three 100meg /boot file systems (one on each machine) and three ~100G root (/) file systems (one on each machine).
We are using a 2TB USB disk for backup storage, with a disk-based (virtual) tape changer. The tape changer is set up to have 200GB 'tapes' with a chunksize of 50GB. We are using a 7-day backup cycle and are using 1 tape per run. Amanda does a full backup of the /data on one day of the week and then does level one backups for the rest of the week. It does a level one backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days. Why does Amanda make so many full backups? Is there a configuation parameter we need to set to change this? -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
