On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Martin Apel wrote:
>I implemented some changes in the driver that cause it to gather dumps
>until a certain threshold is reached. Afterwards it will always write
>the biggest dump still fitting on the tape. This works quite nicely for me
>and improves tape utilization a lot. Unfortunately it also increases the
>total dump time a bit, if your tape is slow.
>I haven't released it yet, because I implemented it in Amanda 2.4.1p1
>and didn't come around to porting it to 2.4.2.
>But if you like I can post the patches for 2.4.1p1.
I have a perl script which will go through my holding disk and spit
out a list of backup sets to select to best pack tapes.
here's an example:
[amanda@joi amanda]$ pack -C OffSite
138530/140906 ( 98%)
/home/amanda/mnt/holdingdisk/OffSite/20010106
/home/amanda/mnt/holdingdisk/OffSite/20010114
116784/140906 ( 82%)
/home/amanda/mnt/holdingdisk/OffSite/20010107
/home/amanda/mnt/holdingdisk/OffSite/20010108
114088/140906 ( 80%)
/home/amanda/mnt/holdingdisk/OffSite/20010111
99327/140906 ( 70%)
/home/amanda/mnt/holdingdisk/OffSite/20010112
Nothing left to pack!
I amflush these to tapes to send to offsite storage.
I've already done two tapes from this batch, I have four
left to do.
--
Joi Ellis
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/
