On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:47:50PM -0600, Deb Baddorf wrote: > What kind of optimiaztion does amanda use while flushing > dumps to tape? > > While doing the dump initially, she seems to > optimize to get the small jobs done first, and thus they > go onto tape in a similar order. But I'm currently without > a stacker. So only the first part of the dumps make it > to tape "live" (so to speak) and the rest get flushed as I > manually mount tapes. I'm hoping that some kind of > knapsack-packing algorithm is used ..... to fit the largest > files on the tape first, but then to add smaller ones to > fill the top of the "sack". > My archival "do all the level 0's" is taking up 5 tapes, > hence the optimization question!
There is no optimazation, first in, first out. That's a need feature. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834