huge incrementals

2001-03-21 Thread Jonathan Dill
Hi all, What values are people using for bumpsize, bumdays, bumpmult other than the example values? I have a lot of 10 GB disks to back up and it doesn't seem efficient to me to do eg. an 11 GB "level 5" backup of a disk that has 13 GB of data on it--In that situation, I think it would

Re: huge incrementals

2001-03-21 Thread John R. Jackson
What values are people using for bumpsize, bumdays, bumpmult other than the example values? I don't think this applies to you, but the only place I've changed the bump* parameters was on a system that had a dumpcycle 10 days (i.e. so I would not run out of level numbers) and I wanted to bump to

Re: Huge incrementals on all samba shares?

2000-12-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 5, 2000, Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amanda has now run 4 times on my network. The past three times it has included samba shares for various NT workstations. Why are the incrementals so huge on these? One of the possible reasons: if the username with which you access the

Re: Huge incrementals on all samba shares?

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Wadsworth
Wow, I think that's it. I made a backup user with "Read-only" permissions on all of the NT machines. Yay! I'm off to change a bunch of backup user setting on a bunch of people's NT boxes now Thanks! --- Eric Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Dec 5, 2000, Eric Wadsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: