Greetings from the canary; One of the things that constantly get under my skin is the apparent lack of amanda's ability to juggle backup order in order to balance the sizes of the backups from night to night. I have fussed about this before without arriving at a solution, but it seems to me amanda has gone dumb with all the re-writes in the last 3 or 5 years.
I am seemingly locked into a cadence of 4 nights worth of doing about 15Gb a night, followed by the night when it does the largest 5 or so DLE's all on the same run, which makes that run be 45+Gb. The biggest one is /usr/movies, at a bit over 16Gb. If I could get that one separated from the other larger ones, it would help. Sure, I could comment that DLE out for a day or 2. Or I could force a level 0 on Friday. The point is that 5 years ago, amanda would do this all by itself and it is no longer even making the effort for at least the last 2 or 3 years. Here is the output of amadmin Daily balance: due-date #fs orig MB out MB balance ---------------------------------------------- 3/21 Wed 2 22104 9865 -32.9% 3/22 Thu 8 6787 3178 -78.4% 3/23 Fri 12 1117 1065 -92.8% 3/24 Sat 9 28015 14595 -0.7% 3/25 Sun 5 48037 44776 +204.7% ---------------------------------------------- TOTAL 36 106060 73479 14695 (estimated 5 runs per dumpcycle) No huge files to disturb it have been added or deleted in at least a month. Now it used to be, years ago, that amanda's planner would come within 20-50 megs of filling a 4Gb tape every night for weeks at a time without ever hitting an EOT. Now it seems as if amanda is making no effort to move that 16Gb movie (its weddings I've shot, all since I moved to vtapes years ago) DLE to Friday or even Thursday where it would fit quite nicely in the 30Gb I give it as a virtual tape size. Do I have it being forced to maintain the existing terrible schedule by some option with a hidden interaction in my amanda.conf? Please name that option if there is such a beast. Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. -- Robert Benchley
