On Mon, 13 May 2002 at 8:29pm, Niall O Broin wrote > So if I want to persuade amanda to use more tape I should shorten the dump > cycle, correct ? But I have a DDS-3 with native capacity of 12 GB and no > changer. What happens if in a dump cycle there's more to be backed up than > can fit on the tape e.g. if a lot happens to change on a couple of > filesystems and level 1s get large ? What falls off the edge of the world ? > The biggest danger is overwriting the only level 0 you have of a particular filesystem. Amanda will try *very* hard not to do this, and will warn you when it's about to happen, and when it has.
This danger is mitigated if you have a tapecycle significantly longer (>2X, e.g.) than your dumpcycle*runtapes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
