Re: Best size for vtapes

2019-11-17 Thread Olivier
Charles Curley writes: > So in theory you could allocate more vtape space that there is room on > the partition. Just make sure you never use more vtape space than you > actually have. In theory. But you are accepting the risk that from time to time all your vtapes will be 100% full and you will

Re: Best size for vtapes

2019-11-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:13:00 +0700 Olivier wrote: > I am wondering what is the best size to declare for the lenght of the > vtapes. Too long a vtape could lead to disk space being unused, You may have a misconception here. Vtapes emulate physical tapes, but not in all respects. If you don't fill

Best size for vtapes

2019-11-17 Thread Olivier
Hello, I apologize in advance if the question has already been answered or has become obsolete. I am wondering what is the best size to declare for the lenght of the vtapes. Too long a vtape could lead to disk space being unused, but having too many small vtapes one or two directories created for

Re: rather simple question around dumpcycle

2019-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.11.19 um 20:32 schrieb Jon LaBadie: > I was not thinking of any algorithm. Just a weekend crontab entries like: > > amadmin ... force ... ; amdump ... Yes, I understood that. But that "manual force" always disturbs the schedule built by the amanda algorithm, right? At least that was