What exactly controls the order of which file systems are dumped by Amanda? Based on my brief experience, it looks large filesystems tend to be taped after the smaller ones included in the run. I guess this is good in the sense that it ensures *some* data is always backed up, but it's really bad if the data turns out to be only just too large to fit on the tape. I just had a 17Gb (compressed size) directory reaching EOT, and thus postponed to the next day, which leaves approximately 5Gb on a 25Gb tape. This is NOT what I call good utilisation... And the 5Gb is split across 4 filesystems. I think 3 of these and the 17Gb one would have been dumped successfully with a different order.
Comments, anyone? -- - Toralf
