Matt,
My guess is that with --no-taper you are writing to the reserve
area as if the tape failed and you had gone into degraded mode.
In that mode you do in fact perform incrementals because without
the tape being available you are trying to conserve your work area.
Not sure what the goal is for the --no-taper specification.
There are some nice, relatively new, tape selection parameters in
the newer versions of amanda (amanda.conf settings), these allow
you to only write tapes that will be filled, holding or flushing
files for a variety of reasons.
Perhaps that would be better than running --no-taper and then flushing,
but I don't know where you are going with it.
best,
Brian
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:07:22PM -0500, Matt wrote:
>
>
> Here's what I have in my crontab
>
> 0 10 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump
> --no-taper dell
> 0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell
>
> Here's what I have
> in my dell configuration
>
> org "Impari Systems" # your organization name
> for reports
> mailto "m...@imparisystems.com" # space separated list of
> operators at your site
> dumpcycle 1 weeks # the number of days in the
> normal dump cycle
> runspercycle 7 # the number of amdump runs in
> dumpcycle days
> # (1 week * 5 amdump runs per week -- just
> weekdays)
> tapecycle 15 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
>
> My
> problem - it runs and does an incremental backup. I've tracked it for
> over a month and it's only done incrementals. Here's an example of the
> output
>
> Hostname: ubuntu Org : Impari Systems Config : dell Date : July
> 31, 2012 There are 0G of dumps left in the holding disk. Run amflush to
> flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dell-0002.
> STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. Level:# -------- -------- -------- --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:03 Dump Time (hrs:min)
> 0:02 0:00 0:02 Output Size (meg) 106.0 0.0 106.0 Original Size (meg)
> 183.7 0.0 183.7 Avg Compressed Size (%) 57.7 -- 57.7 DLEs Dumped 6 0 6
> 1:6 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 1131.4 -- 1131.4 Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00
> 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 DLEs Taped 0
> 0 0 Parts Taped 0 0 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- DUMP SUMMARY:
> DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-GB OUT-GB COMP% MMM:SS
> KB/s MMM:SS KB/s --------------------------
> ------------------------------------- ------------- mlb-dell.loc
> -lb/Desktop 1 0 0 20.0 0:05 0.4 mlb-dell.loc -/Documents 1 0 0 55.8 1:09
> 1201.5 mlb-dell.loc -b/Pictures 1 0 0 85.8 0:01 898.3 mlb-dell.loc
> -lb/Quicken 1 0 0 10.0 0:00 5.5 mlb-dell.loc "-ocuments" 1 0 0 77.4 0:19
> 1238.2 mlb-dell.loc "-ocuments" 1 0 0 19.5 0:02 770.7 (brought to you by
> Amanda version 3.2.0)
>
> However, if I run it without the --no-taper
> directive, it knows it needs to run a full backup.
>
> Is this a (l)user
> error? Do I have something wrong with my config or the crontab entry?
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
>
> Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology
> Management
> m...@imparisystems.com
> c - 301-802-3235
> o - 301-682-7901
>
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