* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:06:20AM -0500)
>>Will that work ?
> No. I'm planning on getting a job in sales, so I'm just making all
> this up. :-)
Good ;)
>>If I specify a chunksize of 1G, and dump a 9G backup, will it stick 3
>>chunks on each of the 3 hilding disks ?
> Not necessarily. Note that it takes both the number of active dumpers
> (how busy) each holding disk has and the amount of free space. So there
> are dynamics involved that cannot be known until runtime. But based on
> that one comment and a quick glance at the code, I would expect it to
> do more or less "the right thing".
Good.
BTW,
does the chunksize have any performance benefiot/penalty ?
Or is it more a convenience (as in this case where picking the right
chunksize will have the load indeed split over multiple disks)
>>That would be really impressive ...
> It's Amanda. What did you expect? :-)
Miracles
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