Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-07-02 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 18:22:20 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote: > It appears that after commenting out most of the DLEs and forcing a full on > a set that can actually fit on a single tape, following backups are > correctly incrementing. I'm still working my way through the DLEs Okay, that lends

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-07-02 Thread Jim Kusznir
So backups are moving along. They are large, so it takes time (one run is 2-3 days, for example -- That's 1 tape!). It appears that after commenting out most of the DLEs and forcing a full on a set that can actually fit on a single tape, following backups are correctly incrementing. I'm still

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-23 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 00:13:40 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > Okay, I'm thinking a way forward from here is to try running a dump run > with just a few of your DLEs, so that they actually fit on a tape and > those dumps run to completion. You can either do this by commenting out Jim,

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-18 Thread Charles Stroom
I am sorry, did not follow this thread but have had similar problems (level 1 backup behave as level 0 and thus back-upped all files), so my suggestion might be mentioned already. My amanda problem only happened with an ntfs formatted disk partition and at the end I found that adding the option

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-17 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 18:13:30 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote: > The backups are not completing because the level 0 problem: planner thinks > its running a backup that can complete, but ends up with 10x the data that > a single run can handle, and it fills up the tape and the holding disk > (which is

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-17 Thread Jim Kusznir
Thanks for the reply. The backups are not completing because the level 0 problem: planner thinks its running a backup that can complete, but ends up with 10x the data that a single run can handle, and it fills up the tape and the holding disk (which is a little more than a full tape), and then

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-17 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:22:10 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote: > The client I'm trying to back up is a FreeNAS appliance, so its not LVM. I You are running the Amanda client software directly on the FreeNAS appliance, right? And also have shell access on the box to produce your "ls" output, etc? >

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-17 Thread Jim Kusznir
The client I'm trying to back up is a FreeNAS appliance, so its not LVM. I don't think the devices are changing boot to boot, but that's possible. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think it is possiblethere is only one device, and I'm sub-dividing that with a bunch of

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-16 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 20:35:30 +0200, Uwe Menges wrote: > On 6/15/19 6:43 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote: > > Ever since, any backup is run as a level 0 (even though it reports doing > > a level 1, 2, etc).  Everything runs as 0. > > > > How do I fix this? > > I fixed a similar symptom on my system with

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-15 Thread Uwe Menges
On 6/15/19 6:43 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote: > Ever since, any backup is run as a level 0 (even though it reports doing > a level 1, 2, etc).  Everything runs as 0. > > How do I fix this? I fixed a similar symptom on my system with property "CHECK-DEVICE" "NO" (using amgtar), which hands

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-15 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 09:43:42 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote: > Ever since, any backup is run as a level 0 (even though it reports doing a > level 1, 2, etc). Everything runs as 0. You mean that the Amanda Mail Report shows the various incremental levels, but the actual size of the dump is always

Re: tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-15 Thread Winston Sorfleet
Post your conf files on GDrive or something and send us a link. On 2019-06-15 12:43 p.m., Jim Kusznir wrote: > Hi all: > > I have a system with a linux amanda server and a FreeBSD amanda > client.  All was working well. > > I transplanted the amanda server into a new mobo/cpu (but same HDD, >

tar backups not doing incrementals

2019-06-15 Thread Jim Kusznir
Hi all: I have a system with a linux amanda server and a FreeBSD amanda client. All was working well. I transplanted the amanda server into a new mobo/cpu (but same HDD, etc, and mobo was exactly the same model -- just moved it into a rack case from a desktop case), and of course rebooted it in