Eric, On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:52:13PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:54:22AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Yup, well aware. At this point, if in fact and EOT signal reschedules > > a DLE with the dumper then having enough holding disk for the largest > > DLE after compression will still be a huge time saver. Elapse time as > > well as CPU time since its both the dump and the gzip. > > Just so. Given your time constraints, it might even make the > difference between a good backup and a less-dependable one; if > the retries push the amdump run into the next work day, some > users' files might get backed up while they're being modified -- > always a bad idea. > > > > [*tera*bytes] > > Totally my fault, > > Oh, I wasn't criticizing; just being amused.
I had the sense of it, I joked back. What is MFM ? On a more serious note. Ran amdump on this server yesterday and the amstatus only showed 13 partitions, I know there are 14. At least that is all that showed while I was watching the estimation phase. I was able to see the 14th DLE listed in the log files though and all 14 where listed in the amdump report when I received it. I just thought this was very odd. It was also odd to me that amadmin due was showing 2 partitions as overdue. Did an amforce on all patitions and started a run this morning. Its taking its time, perhaps with the holding area we will complete in less than the 3 days it took last time. uh-oh, forget to set the holding area space to a negative number... I'm a little surprised to see that we have no concurrency, even when the first few relatively small partitions partitions where being dumped. > > Just waiting to hear that one of the > > managers has order a raid in trilobyte capacity. > > Hmmm, is that a RAID array with three physical drives? Or one > built out of MFM drives (i.e. paleozoic technology)? :-) > > -- > > | | /\ > |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | | / > The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so > many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to > represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. > - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum" --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773
