On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 at 11:29am, Daniel Bentley wrote > Currently running Amanda for backups of desktop shares. The problem we > come across is amount of tape used by certain individuals (mostly of the > 'managerial persuasion'). We have asked these individuals to limit the > size of data kept in their shares many times, but they always 'creep up' > above this size, to the point that they start affecting the other backups, > come their rotation for a full backup. > > Is there any way to put a 'size cap' on the amount of data being backed up > from one particular source (or -all- sources, at that)? There's a big > difference between 'Could you keep the size of the share you want backed > up to X?' and 'There is a limit to back up sizes of X. Anything you have > above this WILL NOT be backed up...'
Sounds like a job for quotas to me. I can't really think of a way of enforcing this with amanda. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University