Martin Oehler wrote: > > Chris Marble wrote: > > > > Martin Oehler wrote: > > > > > > I use amanda on a solaris 7 box with a DTL drive (20 GB) > > > attached. My dumpcyle is 4 weeks with 20 runs per cycle. > > > > > > Because the size of one incremental backup is only > > > between 2-4 GB I don't want to change the tape each day. > > > > You could crank your dumpcycle down to 3 (or whatever number would get > > Amanda to use most of your tape capacity). > > Hmmm, I didn't want to use a constant value because it > can happen that there is a 8 GB or 10 GB incremental backup. > > Is there a way I can calculate the needed size on tape (approx.) > before the backup process starts?
madmin <config> balance will try and figure out how much needs to go on each tape in a dumpcycle. I'm suggesting that you lower dumpcycle so you might get a full backup of one partition every day and incrementals of the others. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.
