Hi John, Mitch,
Does it matter that my dumpcycle is 6 weeks? I actually have 12 weeks
worth of tapes in the cycle, but want 2 full dumps of each disk in case
something happens to one of them.
The problem that I'm having is that the dumps are taking too long. It
looks like it would probably be a good idea to set up a second amanda
server and split up my dumps between them, then the dumps should finish
in time.
I'm shopping for tapedrives that handle > 40 GB native, possibly in an
autoloader depending on cost. Some people are getting 75 GB and 180 GB
SCSI disks now and it would be nice not to have to use GNUTAR or split
them up into partitions for them to fit on the backup tapes that I am
using which are DDS4 40/20 GB.
Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
>
> > However, I *think* (but did not investigate) this will create a "hill"
> > in the balancing Amanda tries to achieve, so during the week it will
> > promote full dumps from what would have been done next weekend up into
> > the weekdays to reduce the load it thinks is going to happen Sat/Sun.
> > In other words, it's going to undo what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> Ah yes. I'm sure this is true, John. I've seen it many times.
> "It's a feature"!
>
> -Mitch
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