Paul,
I understand that this is not the way that Amanda works normally, but I have
an offsite storage requirement that I have to fulfill. Since Amanda normally
scatters the Full dumps across the week there would not be any one set of
tapes that I could take away. If I had to do this by hand each week and take
that set offsite, then I would end up with multiple Fulls and I could not
afford the tapes! The write-up in the book indicates (albeit somewhat
obliquely) that breaking it up this way is the way to accomplish my goal.
The only difference is that the book says do it by hand and this is an
attempt to make it automatic. My only other option is to make every dump a
full dump like we do now, but I am pretty sure I cannot stream it through my
tape drive every evening before the traffic starts to pick up again.
markh
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:36 AM
To: Mark Holm
Subject: Re: Newbie and not quite understanding ...
Mark Holm wrote:
>
> The second one was the one that actually had the files attached. I didn't
> get it either, so I may have typoed and it's still trying to bounce back
to
> me.
>
> The AIT Definition that I used is:
>
> define tapetype SONY-AIT {
> comment "SONY-AIT - produced by tapetype"
> length 21783 mbytes # "25 GB" capacity
> filemark 772 kbytes
> speed 2783 kbytes # nominal speed under
> load
> # lbl-templ "/usr/local/amanda/etc/AIT.ps" # tape labeling
> template
> }
>
> Looks like the vicinity of 25Gb to me.
I have "length 23500 mbytes" in mine! What you have is typically
when you have hardware compression ON and use software compression
(as tapetype assumes) also on. Bad idea.
Investigate a little how to turn hardware compression off
(but this may not be related to your problem you have now).
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