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From: Gene Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Johannes Niess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: outgrown my one tape drive (DDS-4) solution; any recommendations? Date: 06 Mar 2002 12:49:28 -0500 On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 10:39, Johannes Niess wrote: > > Gene, > > Don't spend money too fast. > > So you're saying that the compressed size of your biggest disklist > entry is over 20 GB on a level 0? No, I don't think that is the case. > > In this case you could make different disklist entries for all sub > directories, creating new, (hidden $) shares (just for backup). This > works best if the subdir's are somehow constant and no new sibblings > are created. E. g. if you did backup \\nt\c$ , you could backup > \\nt\c$\winnt , \\nt\c$\programms, etc. > > > Or are you just getting "out of tape" errors? > When I am attempting to back up all that I would like to, I get out of tape errors. My backup from last night just finished, and I put only the most critical unix f/s in disklist and only one of the 4 (the largest I think, I'll have to double check) windows shares. It did complete this time. It took almost 11 hours to run, though. I've got to figure out a way to get that down. That was for a level 0 on the one windows partition. I am seeing that the amount of data for these windows partitions actually backed up (when it doesn't run out of tape) is larger than the estimate received before it starts. Sometimes 1.3 - 1.4 times, i think. > Amanda will balance the backup levels for you over time. So after a > few cycles the tape with a level 0 of \\nt (current configuration) > will have (high numbered) incrementals of all other partitions. You > could increase "dumpcycle". Since this one worked, I'll try adding another one in tonights run and see how that works. Thanks, Gene > > HTH, > > Johannes Nie� > -- Gene Matthews Matthews Midrange Consulting, Inc. (678) 923-8327 (877) 882-6291 (toll free) http://mmc-inc.com
