On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:00:23PM -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 17:22 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> > > I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've
> > > never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to
> > > put some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that
> > > need burnishing, since I work on Amanda all day, every day.
> > >
> >
> > A bit ago I discovered that spindle numbers are host-specific.
> > Because of this my virtual machines are being backed up at
> > the same time as the host filesystem storage for the VM.
> >
> > I would like to see a way of saying "do not back more than
> > one of these DLEs at the same time".
> >
>
> At my last job I did this with interfaces. Something like:
>
> define interface web-servers {
> # don't back up more than one web server at a time
> use 1 kbps
> }
>
>
> define interface database-servers {
> # don't back up more than one database server at a time
> use 1 kbps
> }
>
>
> define interface misc-servers {
> # try to back up two misc servers at once
> # 1xxx is found out by trial and error
> use 1xxx kbps
> }
>
> in disklist:
> web-1 ... web-servers
> web-2 ... web-servers
> db-1 ... database-servers
> db-2 ... database-servers
> misc-1 ... misc-servers
> misc-2 ... misc-servers
> misc-3 ... misc-servers
> misc-4 ... misc-servers
>
>
> The above worked most of the time. Every once in a while I would get
> more than I wanted running at once, but it worked well enough.
>
Interesting idea Chris. I'll take a look at trying it.
jl
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