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In My office amanda does a full backup regularly for 3 days but why is
it not switching over to a incremental backup after the full backup is
run for first time

any help

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Kaushal Shriyan

Technical Engineer
Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.
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Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

In My office amanda does a full backup regularly for 3 days but why is
it not switching over to a incremental backup after the full backup is
run for first time

any help


Now we can only guess, like "you told her so", or "because she
has a mind of her own".

It would help us if post more info, like the e.g. configuration.
(At least if you're not talking about Amanda, the secretary
in Your office)).

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Hi All

Wanted to know about amanda tape viz to check what will be the next run
for a particular hostname, diskname.

How do i check that

Any Help

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Regards,

Kaushal Shriyan

Technical Engineer
Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.
Tel : +91-22-22881326/27
Fax : +91-22-22881318

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 11:39am, Kaushal Shriyan wrote

Wanted to know about amanda tape viz to check what will be the next run
for a particular hostname, diskname.

How do i check that

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but I'm sure your answers lie in
'man amadmin'. It can tell what tape amanda wants next, what's on tape
for each DLE, etc.

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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:22:11AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain enlightened us:
Wanted to know about amanda tape viz to check what will be the next run
for a particular hostname, diskname.

How do i check that

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but I'm sure your answers lie in
'man amadmin'. It can tell what tape amanda wants next, what's on tape
for each DLE, etc.

I think what he's asking for is a way to find out what level dump will be
done during the next run of amanda for a particular host/disk.

Unfortunately the answer is you can't. amadmin can tell you what level was
done on the last run (amadmin Config info host disk), and it can tell you
when the next level 0 is due (amadmin Config due host disk). So, you can
guess based on that information what the next run might be, however amanda
is free at any time to move a level 0 forward in time if it will help
balance the amount of dumps.

Hope that explains it...

Matt

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I have following queries in the amanda Backup

1)
[amanda < at > indus amanda]$ amadmin DailySet1 balance
new disk indus.mumbai.redhat.com://account.mumbai.redhat.com/C ignored.

Why do i get this


2) I get this whwn i run amadmin DailySet1 due


Overdue 12619 days:
indus.mumbai.redhat.com://account.mumbai.redhat.com/D
Overdue 12619 days: illusions.mumbai.redhat.com:/home/amit

Can anyone clarify this on the above point


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Regards,

Kaushal Shriyan

Technical Engineer
Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.
Tel : +91-22-22881326/27
Fax : +91-22-22881318
Cell : +91-9820367783

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

I have following queries in the amanda Backup

1)
[amanda < at > indus amanda]$ amadmin DailySet1 balance
new disk indus.mumbai.redhat.com://account.mumbai.redhat.com/C ignored.

Why do i get this


Because amanda never did a full backup of that DLE, it cannot
predict when it will be scheduled, nor how much data that will
add to the size of full backups that day.



2) I get this whwn i run amadmin DailySet1 due


Overdue 12619 days:
indus.mumbai.redhat.com://account.mumbai.redhat.com/D
Overdue 12619 days: illusions.mumbai.redhat.com:/home/amit

Can anyone clarify this on the above point


$ perl -M'Date::Calc ":all"' \
-e 'print join("-", Add_Delta_Days(2004, 7, 26, -12619)), "\n"'
1970-1-7

I guess you got that result 6 days ago :-)

January 1, 1970 is the beginning of the epoch in Unix.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that some older version of Amanda
says this when this is a new disk, or you did a "amadmin config force"
on that DLE to force a full dump. What version is this?

Otherwise you somehow got a zero in the field of last-full-dump
in the info files. Don't know how that could get there (except if
your CMOS battery is broken, and you booted that computer 6 days ago?)


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Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512
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* I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, *
* quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, *
* stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, *
* PF4, F20, ^X^X, :, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, *
* kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... *
* ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out *
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