On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:41, Axel Haenssen wrote: >Hi Guys, >I am trying to back up a couple of bigger partitions on my Beowulf > cluster. Some of these Partitions are bigger than the tapes. But > that shouldn't work anyway shouldn't it???? >I am attaching the mailreport for clarification. >How do I get it to back up the big partitions on the nodes???
Break them up into subdir entries that are smaller than a tape in your disklist. This BTW only works for Tar, not dump as dump does whole filesystems only. My whole /usr is handled this way because its a bit more than 40 gigs & I have only DDS2 tapes. Works great, and seems to give amanda a much better chance at achieving "balance" because she can juggle the schedules for the individual entry much easier. Also, when doing this, check the individual dirsize with du, and only add about half a tapes worth of new entries each run until you have them all covered. That way amanda can merge the new entries into the schedule gracefully without overflowing a single tape which might occur if you added them all on the same day. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.21% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
