On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 3:07pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > What does the chunksize in Amanda 2.4.2p2 control and can I just > comment it out? I'm running Amanda server on Solaris connected > to a DLT 35/70 So if I can't comment it out, what is the > recommended chunksize for this size of disk?
Chunksize controls the size of the chunks of a backup image on the holding disk before it goes out to tape. It's initial purpose (I believe) was to allow for the backup of disks >2GB on OSen which didn't support files that size. > Also would a incorrectly sized chunksize slow down the backups? No. > My chunksize is currently set to 2GB which may be a totally > ridiculous figure. Chunksize has no effect on performance. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
