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thanks Paul

Thanks,
Robert Reilly
Dir Sys Eng
C 203.297.3653


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Yeatman [mailto:pyeatman < at > zmanda.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:25 PM
To: Robert Reilly
Cc: amanda-hackers < at > amanda.org; amanda-users < at > amanda.org
Subject: Re: bumping

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:49 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it
about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a
full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more
tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is
appreciated.


It sounds like it is a case of overpromoting more than a matter of your
bump parameters. This is a common scenario for overpromoting when your
number of DLEs is less than the days in your dumpcycle. Likely the
dumptype parameter "maxpromoteday" set to 1 or 2 or even 0 would give
you what you want.

Paul





Thanks,





Robert Reilly

Director Systems Engineering

C 203.297.3653

W 718.928.1172

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:49 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it
about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a
full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more
tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is
appreciated.


It sounds like it is a case of overpromoting more than a matter of your
bump parameters. This is a common scenario for overpromoting when your
number of DLEs is less than the days in your dumpcycle. Likely the
dumptype parameter "maxpromoteday" set to 1 or 2 or even 0 would give
you what you want.

Paul





Thanks,





Robert Reilly

Director Systems Engineering

C 203.297.3653

W 718.928.1172

and how to i accomplish with amanda enterprise ?, it is for the dump
type correct ?

Thanks,
Robert Reilly
Dir Sys Eng
C 203.297.3653


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Yeatman [mailto:pyeatman < at > zmanda.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:25 PM
To: Robert Reilly
Cc: amanda-hackers < at > amanda.org; amanda-users < at > amanda.org
Subject: Re: bumping

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:49 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it
about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a
full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more
tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is
appreciated.


It sounds like it is a case of overpromoting more than a matter of your
bump parameters. This is a common scenario for overpromoting when your
number of DLEs is less than the days in your dumpcycle. Likely the
dumptype parameter "maxpromoteday" set to 1 or 2 or even 0 would give
you what you want.

Paul





Thanks,





Robert Reilly

Director Systems Engineering

C 203.297.3653

W 718.928.1172

currently set to maxpromoteday 10000

Thanks,
Robert Reilly
Dir Sys Eng
C 203.297.3653


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Yeatman [mailto:pyeatman < at > zmanda.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:25 PM
To: Robert Reilly
Cc: amanda-hackers < at > amanda.org; amanda-users < at > amanda.org
Subject: Re: bumping

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:49 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it
about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a
full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more
tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is
appreciated.


It sounds like it is a case of overpromoting more than a matter of your
bump parameters. This is a common scenario for overpromoting when your
number of DLEs is less than the days in your dumpcycle. Likely the
dumptype parameter "maxpromoteday" set to 1 or 2 or even 0 would give
you what you want.

Paul





Thanks,





Robert Reilly

Director Systems Engineering

C 203.297.3653

W 718.928.1172

Correct. It should be put in the disklist.conf file for each DLE.

Paul

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 23:31 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
and how to i accomplish with amanda enterprise ?, it is for the dump
type correct ?

Thanks,
Robert Reilly
Dir Sys Eng
C 203.297.3653


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Yeatman [mailto:pyeatman < at > zmanda.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:25 PM
To: Robert Reilly
Cc: amanda-hackers < at > amanda.org; amanda-users < at > amanda.org
Subject: Re: bumping

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:49 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it
about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a
full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more
tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is
appreciated.


It sounds like it is a case of overpromoting more than a matter of your
bump parameters. This is a common scenario for overpromoting when your
number of DLEs is less than the days in your dumpcycle. Likely the
dumptype parameter "maxpromoteday" set to 1 or 2 or even 0 would give
you what you want.

Paul





Thanks,





Robert Reilly

Director Systems Engineering

C 203.297.3653

W 718.928.1172






--
Paul Yeatman
Technical Support Engineer
Zmanda, Inc.
http://www.zmanda.com

Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is appreciated.


Thanks,


Robert Reilly
Director Systems Engineering
C 203.297.3653
W 718.928.1172

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:31:48PM -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
From: Paul Yeatman [mailto:pyeatman < at > zmanda.com]
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:49 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it
about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a
full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more
tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is
appreciated.


It sounds like it is a case of overpromoting more than a matter of your
bump parameters. This is a common scenario for overpromoting when your
number of DLEs is less than the days in your dumpcycle. Likely the
dumptype parameter "maxpromoteday" set to 1 or 2 or even 0 would give
you what you want.

Paul

and how to i accomplish with amanda enterprise ?, it is for the dump
type correct ?

Thanks,
Robert Reilly
Dir Sys Eng
C 203.297.3653


As JLM pointed out to me earlier today, FTD *

amanda.conf(5)
...
DUMPTYPE SECTION
...
maxpromoteday ...

So your answer is yes.

* Follow The Docs, much nicer than RTFM .

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