On Friday 28 July 2006 14:25, Alan Pearson wrote: >I think I've run into another problem indirectly realted to my earlier >issues. > >I've been trying in vein to get a Level 0 dump of the machine onto tape. > >I've told amanda to use SERVER compression, but unfortunatley, amanda >planner seem to take the estimates from the client without compression >when calculating what it can fit on tape. > >So in reality, if I go over the uncompressed size of the tape as defined >in tape type, then this will never get to tape, even though it may fit on >after compression. > >This is at the planner stage, so Amanda doesn't even dump the system to >disk to see what size it really is. > >Anybody any idea how to get round this one ? > Time to make its history maybe. Amanda keeps track of the compression achieved on a given DLE, and uses that historical figure to estimate the new backup being contemplated. And without any history, probably assumes a zero for compression effectiveness. Here, for relatively stable DLE's, it can get very very accurate after a few weeks.
>Cheers, -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
