On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 at 7:59am, Matthew Boeckman wrote
> 20+hour backup cycle. Or is there something that I have to configure in
> amanda to let it know i'm using hardware compression and to ignore tape
> warnings?
To use hardware compression, you fib to amanda about your tapelength. In
your tapetype, put a reasonable guess, based upon your data, as to how
much you can get on tape. If it's all code and text files, 90-100GB
wouldn't be far off. If it's all jpgs, well, 50GB may be about right.
You may need to adjust if you keep hitting EOT.
> slowsrv /usr {
> user-tar
> exclude list ".exclude"
> compress server fast
> } 2 le0 # no line break before spindle and interface
> Does that mean that .exclude is in /usr ? Is it exclude absolute
I believe so.
> pathnames or any pattern match? In other words if I want to exclude
> /usr/bob, and in the exclude I have /bob, will that exclude any match
> for bob, or only subdirs of the mount being backed up? Likewise, what
./bob would exclude /usr/bob.
> are the "compress server fast" lines about?
>
That's software (gzip) compression being done on the amanda server (rather
than the client). If you turn hardware compression on, be sure to turn
software off.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
