Hey all,
I've got a puzzler here, any suggestions on how to handle this would be
great (except using gnutar).
I'm using amanda-2.4.2 on Solaris 2.6, works great. However, my file
systems are such that I have three file systems that are an order of
magnitude larger than the rest(18GB vs 2 GB). The problem comes to the
balance calculation. The larger file systems never get promoted, so they
are left to be dumped until they are actually due. That isn't a problem
until 2 biggies are due on the same day, resulting in backup running until
noon. :)
I had thought no big deal, I'll set the dumpcycle on the biggies to a
shortened interval and planner will figure it out. But, the balance size
is calculated based on the estimated runspercycle and total size of level
0 dumps, so that adjustment didn't change anything other than increase the
frequency of "overtime" backups. No help.
As always, in the act of describing the problem, I think I see the
solution. I should change my dumpcycle to shorter value and override that
on my smaller filesystems to a longer value. That should bump up the
balance calculation.
Make sense?
Later,
Bill Carlson
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