> On Friday 29 October 2004 23:31, Joe Rhett wrote: > >Farther down are 15, 20, and 30 gigabyte filesystems, which it > > scheduled at the very last. One per tape, with no small filesystems > > filling up the tapes. On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:40:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Hmmm, I'm using the latest 2.4.5 snapshot, with the taperalgo set to largestfit, and > this: > dumporder "STTT" # specify the priority order of each dumper > And a typical backup session will start with the largest and work down, like this:
Having it go largest to smallest would produce almost identical tape usage. One filesystems per tape for 2 tapes, then everything else jammed onto three tapes. We normally use only three (and often two) per night. -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net
