On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:06:14 -0400 gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 22, 2011 01:43:56 PM Charles Curley did opine: > > I have now added another 20Gb to the vtape size, so it should flush > the leftovers and do a normal backup tonight. > > But as far as any 'balance' is concerned, I am under the impression > the scheduler is blindfolded and playing "pin the tail on the donkey" > as it doesn't seem to even be approaching a balanced use after nearly > 2 more weeks of every night runs. > > [root@coyote Daily]# su amanda -c "amadmin Daily balance" > > due-date #fs orig MB out MB balance > ---------------------------------------------- > 9/22 Thu 0 0 0 --- > 9/23 Fri 2 18976 10600 -18.5% > 9/24 Sat 10 21077 9546 -26.6% > 9/25 Sun 21 21436 13499 +3.7% > 9/26 Mon 3 31429 31429 +141.5% > ---------------------------------------------- > TOTAL 36 92918 65074 13014 > (estimated 5 runs per dumpcycle) > > So that last one on the 26th will do this all over again. That sort > of a report is beginning to develop a pretty high vacuum here. I can > recall, back when my system was smaller and I was using 4Gb tapes, it > could stay at 94% +- 3% media use for weeks at a time. Now, even > before the extended shutdown, I am running out of tape because it > decides to do level 0's of /usr/movies (17Gb) and /home (20 Gb) on > the same nights. That sucks. Gene: backup@dzur:~$ amadmin DailySet1 balance due-date #fs orig GB out GB balance ---------------------------------------------- 9/22 Thu 1 13 10 +233.3% 9/26 Mon 1 3 2 -33.3% 9/27 Tue 1 5 5 +66.7% 9/28 Wed 1 10 8 +166.7% 9/29 Thu 1 3 3 +0.0% 9/30 Fri 1 7 6 +100.0% 10/03 Mon 25 2 2 -33.3% 10/04 Tue 1 4 4 +33.3% 10/05 Wed 3 3 2 -33.3% 10/06 Thu 1 4 4 +33.3% ---------------------------------------------- TOTAL 36 54 46 3 (estimated 15 runs per dumpcycle) backup@dzur:~$ And your problem is? Consider enabling tape splitting. That might use your disk space more efficiently than increasing the "size" of the tape. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
