On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:02:18AM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to avoid the situation where some DLEs get multiple level0 > backups during the dumpcycle. This is because I'm running with vtapes > that are somewhat "over-drafting" the actual capacity of the > backup-harddisk. > > It seems from the documentation that I should set 'maxpromoteday' to 2, > 1 or even 0. That's fine, I'll do that. But I must admit that I don't > quite understand the meaning of maxpromoteday parameter, except that > setting it to smaller number causes Amanda to promote dumps less > aggressively. Can anyone explain it? If I set maxpromoteday to, say, 3, > then how does this '3' actually influence the planner? >
Gee, I'd like to know this as well. The default says it is 10000. I wonder if it is the maximum number of promotions. So by reducing it you lessen the chance to promote. And of course, a setting of 0 would then eliminate promotions. Just speculation however. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
