--On Friday, January 03, 2003 22:18:18 -0500 "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a reason indexing isn't on by default? They don't really take up >> that much space ... > > I beg to differ: > > $ du -sk /var/amanda/index/champion > 4641743 /var/amanda/index/champion > > Yup. Four and a half *GBytes*. > > Now, granted, this is on a very large Amanda configuration. But it's > not peanuts even in my "small" configs. OK, size is a relative thing. If all you back up is a 9 gig disk then 4,5 G would be huge, if you are backing up terabytes then it is just dust. I would still guess that as a percentage of total disk backed up it is a relatively small number, unless you have an unusually high percentage of your disk occupied by tiny files. >> ... and recovery is an all or nothing deal without them. ... > > Not at all, although it depends on how things are set up. Using dump > (instead of GNU tar) provides a fairly easy to manage shell to pick > and choose what to restore. Knowing which tapes are needed might be an > issue -- it depends on the restore scenerio. But dump limits you to filesystems smaller than your tape since Amanda won't span tapes on a single DLE. So those of us that prefer larger filesystems are forced to use GNU tar, and indexes make restoring with tar much simpler. >> Just curious as why some of the defaults are the way they are. > > Ah, now that's a completely different question :-). The answer, as is > often the case, is "because it's always been that way". Changing the > default could be a *big* surprise to folks who upgrade. Like suddenly making the existance of a listed exclude file required in 2.4.3 when it used to be optional? Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501