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.

Jon
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