On Friday 08 August 2003 16:05, Marcelo Block Teixeira wrote: >I'd like understand this "dump cycle". >If I setup one area bigger than tape space. What wil happen? > 'dumpcycle' is the number of days (or weeks) in elapsed time that amanda has to achieve a level 0 backup of every entry in the disklist. 'runspercycle' is how many times amanda will be run in dumpcycle days. For businesses that have no one to change tapes over the weekends, these are often set to 7 and 5 respectively.
If one area, more specifically, one entry in the disklist is larger than a tape, it will fail. amanda cannot span a single disklist entry (DLE) across more than 1 tape. The solution is generally to use tar and an exclude file in the dumptype, using a seperate but except for the exclude file otherwise identical dumptype, repeat till its small enough to fit. IMO, better yet is to use tar with seperate DLE's for each listing a seperate subdir as its starting point. I have my /usr dirs broken up into individual subdirs in this manner here. Haveing the amount of data broken up into smaller pieces also facilitates amandas ability to juggle the schedule and achieve a more uniform amount of tape usage per each run, which is also one of her targets. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
