BRINER Cedric schrieb:
>
> Hi,
>
> The idea to balance the dumps during the dumpcycle is to keep constant
> the among of data archived by run on the tape.
> One of the problem I get is that the first run i launch will do a full
> dump for every host. So that mean that the first tape will have about
> "runspercycle" times more data to save than an other one. Basically, the
> probleme appear because we are in transitory state (without backup state
> to a backup state).
>
> So in my case where I ONLY use one tape without any changer, is it
> important for me to spread the first full dumps in the dumpcycle..
>
> How can I achieve this ??
Calculate how much tape space is needed for each host. Prioritize your
hosts. Comment out hosts in the host list until the expected dump size
is less than one tape size. On the next run, activate commented-out
hosts. Repeat until all hosts are active.
HTH
-Christoph Sold
