On Oct 14, 2013, at 5:39 PM, "John G. Heim" <jh...@math.wisc.edu>
wrote:
> If I understand the concept of bumpting, then because I'm using virtual
> tapes, I think I want total bumping to be done -- if there is such a thing.
> I don't care at all how many "tapes" my backup is scattered over.
>
> I inherited my amanda setup from my predecessor in this job and I have never
> messed with the bump settings. But we are moving from physical tapes to
> virtual tapes. Here are the current values:
>
> bumpsize 500 mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1
> -> 2
> bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
> bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
>
>
> I'm a little unclear on how backup levels and tape cycle interact. It would
> be fine with me if there was always just one copy of each file on the virtual
> tapes.
>
> --
> ---
> John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jh...@math.wisc.edu
I think you are saying don't DON'T want bumping. Bumping is going down to a
level-2 backup from a level-1, so as to reduce the amount of data being saved.
I think you are saying you only want level 0 backups done. I do this for my
"archival" tapes, which should not contain level-1 backups and thus be reliant
on
some other tape. I use these settings:
dumpcycle 0 # the number of days in the normal ARCHIVE cycle
tapecycle 9000 tapes # some infinite number; always fresh tape for archives
inside my dumptype's I include:
define dumptype dailyNormal {
BDnormal #read in the other file
strategy noinc #nothing but full backups; don't even calculate other
sizes
skip-incr yes
}
Am I hearing you correctly?
Deb Baddorf
Fermilab
