On Saturday 09 March 2002 09:29 am, Jenn Sturm wrote: Something that for some reason, won't copy into kmail for a reply!
Probably that dash-dash divider as a first line as thats, by convention, the marker for the end of the message, and if a space follows the -- as the first characters on the line, most mailers will then draw a line between the message and the sig. So please use a standard greeting rather than the dashes. But, to answer your question in a general sense, amanda is a strong willed girl, and will do as she pleases. What she will do is automaticly arrange the backup schedule such that a better use of resources is obtained. For instance, if she finds that you have a 4 gig tape, but that tonights incrementals only need 373k to store, she will look around and see what else might be done that would help to fill up a larger piece of the tape. To do this, she might advance the full backups of a few other entries in the disklist from the dumpcycle settings and arrive at a 2 gig of data program for tonight. In my case, I have 20 tapes and a 7 day dumpcyle for a machine with a 46 gig drive, all going to a CTL96 Seagate changer that uses DDS2 tapes. Almost every night a full or 2 gets advanced by 2 or 3 days. Amanda is very co-operative if you'll just let her do things her way, and her way is to maximize the security of your data within the limits of the hardware you give her. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.6+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
