On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 02:24:52PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Jon LaBadie writes: > >On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:05:32AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >> Greetings. > >> > >> I seem to be getting an awful lot of full (level-0) backups: > >> > >Not unusual. It a product of having a couple of large DLEs and several, > >relatively small DLEs. Amanda tries to schedule so that each runs > >backup is about the same size. The large ones skew the average needed > >each run and the only way to get nearer the average is to promote the > >small DLEs to level 0. > > Makes sense, and yes, that pretty-much matches my setup. > > I'm trying to figure out a way to split my two largest DLEs (one is > 100GB and the other is about 60GB) into several smaller ones. > Do you mean you do not understand the mechanics of splitting a DLE or that you do not know what pieces to split off. The former we can give some direction. For the latter the "du -s" command can be used to find the size of subdirs. For example, "du -sh /home/*" would tell you the size of each homedir.
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