The idea was to backup the desktop machines during the day when they were on but wait until night time to upload the backup files to Amazon S3 to make better use of our Internet connection.
If there's another way to accomplish this, I'm all for changing! I'll take a look at the reserve configuration, but since I know nothing of it, it might be empty.... Thanks! On 2012-08-01 13:24, Brian Cuttler wrote: > 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 [1]" # 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 [2] c - 301-802-3235 o - 301-682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com [3] --- > > Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain > confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally > privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It > is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or > from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not > distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the > sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your > system. Thank you for your cooperation. -- Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management m...@imparisystems.com c - 301-802-3235 o - 301-682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com Links: ------ [1] mailto:m...@imparisystems.com [2] mailto:m...@imparisystems.com [3] http://www.imparisystems.com
