Re: what leads to a "new disk" ?

Jose M Calhariz <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Dec 2022 18:41:12 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 03:20:08PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 05.12.22 um 15:03 schrieb Jose M Calhariz:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:18:03AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have an installation where I didn't add or remove DLEs for a long time.
> > > 
> > > But now an then amanda seems to "forget" a DLE and come up with something
> > > like:
> > > 
> > > samba.intra rootfs lev 0  FAILED [dumps too big, 42606931 KB, but cannot
> > > incremental dump new disk]
> > > 
> > > The DLE is NOT new. Where does that come from?
> > > 
> > 
> > By chance have you made a "amadmin Config force samba.intra rootfs"
> > just before that?
> 
> correct ;-)
> 
> I do that in my crontab:
> 
> 30 19 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/amdump myconfig -ostorage=storage1; /bin/mt-st -f
> /dev/nst0 offl
> 
> 30 02 * * 7 /usr/sbin/amadmin myconfig force; /usr/sbin/amdump myconfig
> -ostorage=storage2
> 
> 
> I wasn't aware that doing this "resets history" ... I just want to have lev0
> runs only on that day

It blocks incremental backups to run until a lev0 is run sucessfully.
Now I only do a "amdmin force " when I know I have lost the previous
lev 0 or incrementals are broken.


> 
> thx
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz


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