On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:59:12PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > 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've been wondering about how this is prioritized as well. In my case, I've got a flaky tape drive that could decide to reset the bus or just stop working at any time[1], so it would be very useful if I could tell it to write the latest backups of, say, the NFS server's /home and the partition that holds the company's primary database first before it starts doing the various / and /usr partitions that probably haven't changed since the last set of security updates. [1] I have a replacement, but the backup server does other things, too, so I haven't had an opportunity to take the box down and install the new drive yet.
