On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:56:30AM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote: > is there a way to influence the planner not only such that it > balances out the space across all days, but also that it tries > spreading out level 0s across all hosts per day
That's what amanda try to do since amanda-2.4.4. If amanda doesn't succeed, you should try Paul's idea to force some full dump. Jean-Louis > , so that I not end up > having one host dump all fs's at L0 one day, then the next host on the > next day? > > While I can see scenarios in which it is desirable to have as many level0s > per host on the same day as possible, in my case I do backups over a slow > (ADSL via IPSEC VPN link), which take a long time. So I would like to > have it do at most 2 level0 dumps (out of abt 5 filesystems each) per > day per host? > > the dumporder parameter is only checked by the driver, after the planner > made its decisions, right? > > Finally, I would like to repear my question whether it's possible to > run the planner standalone to find out what it would do on the next run > without actually performing the backup.. > > thanks > > Mathias K�rber > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D�partement IRO, Universit� de Montr�al C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montr�al, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
