Re: What determines the order files(systems) get backed up?

2001-09-10 Thread John R. Jackson
I am using amanda 4.2P2 and would like to be able to influence the order files are backed up to tape. I would prefer largest files first. ... ... Is there some way of configuring the planner to do this? You need to change driver, not planner. The entries are currently sorted by estimated

Re: What determines the order files(systems) get backed up?

2001-09-10 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: I am using amanda 4.2P2 and would like to be able to influence the order files are backed up to tape. I would prefer largest files first. ... Note that such a change is likely to significantly reduce the amount of parallelism built into Amanda

Re: What determines the order files(systems) get backed up?

2001-09-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:38:56PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: I am using amanda 4.2P2 and would like to be able to influence the order files are backed up to tape. I would prefer largest files first. ... ... Is there some way of configuring the planner to do this? You need to change

What determines the order files(systems) get backed up?

2001-09-06 Thread Sheldon Knight
Hi, I am using amanda 4.2P2 and would like to be able to influence the order files are backed up to tape. I would prefer largest files first. This would assist in increasing the usage of the tape and if more than one tape was required small files would remain to be backed up rather than a