> On May 12, 2020, at 4:49 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 05 March 2020 05:08:25 Gene Heskett wrote: > Amanda did a 72GB backup last night, where fot a couple weeks it has > sailed along in the 15GB range. So I have not solved my problem with > the long cycle bandaid. > > So of course it used 2 vtapes, and ran w/o any error drama. > > Here is the triggering problem, the database my wrapper script keeps so > that I can restore to that same backup, not a day older, in the event of > a major main disk upchuck and all of the amanda history is wiped out. > > root@coyote:~$ du -h /GenesAmandaHelper-0.61/config-bak/ > 32G /GenesAmandaHelper-0.61/config-bak/ > > Which is just a few % smaller than the size of a vtape. It contains > copies of the indice files generated from each run as uncompressed > tarballs for the last 60 amanda runs. Each is nearly .6 GB. And its my > last chance to recover all that data for amanda's recovery database in > one swell foop. And because of that, I don't want to break that one up > into smaller pieces. It does compress about 10 GB in the process, but I > don't see a satisfactory way to shrink it, other than shrinking the > number of vtapes. My script also appends a copy of todays config and > generated indice as a tarballs, which it does every night as an append > to that slots contents, so its not actually included in the disklist > where it would be both subject to the vtape size set in the config, and > duplicate data harder to find in the normal backup scheme. > > Looking for a solution, but I don't see one. Open to ideas though. > > Perhaps a classic example of not being able to see the forest with all > these trees in the way. > > Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__geneslinuxbox.net-3A6309_gene&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=HMrKaRiCv4jddln9fLPIOw&m=f3wTouquDod7ABHV_R7wbvwDtmOLd3w9NxRmOHYCvkc&s=e4EopQ3ZpdNPF7KFkVKSvIU5qq9mZvC0rW5xx7Lfkko&e= > >
Maybe just add a second disk, for more vtapes? Then you can cease caring if occasional runs take 2 vtapes. You’d have a bigger pool of backups, for longer redundancy. Deb Baddorf
