On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 at 10:33am, Ralph Bearpark wrote > > Not that I know of, but in the 2.4.4 ReleaseNotes it says > > that it tries to > > reduce the number of level 0s per host each night. > > I guess that *might* help. I could probably get it down to > a full backup every week. Would I just need 2.4.4 on the > server? Or the clients too?
Just on the server -- that's the job of planner. > > If you want amanda to use less disk space, crank down your > > 'tapelength'. > > Since you're using diskless backup, you can define whatever > > size "tapes" > > you want. > > True, but I have 18GB over 30 tapes. So, to be completely > safe from Amanda filling the disk with unnecessary full > backups, I'd have to set the tapelength to 600MB, which, > unfortunately, wouldn't be enough for any single client full > backup. Single *client* or single *disk*? Remember, you can always split up your filesystems into multiple disklist entries using tar. Then you could reduce your tapelength to have *just enough* to fit everything once. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
