On Thursday 14 May 2009 7:06:57 am Brandon Metcalf wrote: > m == martin...@zmanda.com writes: > > m> Small disk are often promoted to try to get a balanced schedule. > m> If it is a problem, you can set the 'maxpromoteday' for this disk. > > > Yep, this makes sense based on the notes from the planner. I guess > the only reason it would be a problem is if I'm running out of space > on which I stored the backups? > > Also, I guess the planner will quit promoting full dumps once it does > enough backups with the new config?
Another case where this is inconvenient is when the backups COULD fit on a certain number of tapes, but the premature promotion of many small filesystems makes them spill over onto the beginning of another tape. I don't know if there is any real solution to that problem, though. amanda tries to balance the load evenly among the runs in each dumpcycle. But sometimes I'd rather she tried to keep me on a single tape, and then write two tapes some night, rather than writing 1 1/4 tapes each night. That would save a lot of wear and tear on backup media. Perhaps the solution is not in changing the planner behavior, but in taper options. It would be acceptible to me if amanda wrote most of the holding disk files to tape, but elected to save some for the next night if it meant better allocation of media. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | jdander...@lbl.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808