On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:00:23PM -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 17:22 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > > > I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've > > > never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to > > > put some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that > > > need burnishing, since I work on Amanda all day, every day. > > > > > > > A bit ago I discovered that spindle numbers are host-specific. > > Because of this my virtual machines are being backed up at > > the same time as the host filesystem storage for the VM. > > > > I would like to see a way of saying "do not back more than > > one of these DLEs at the same time". > > > > At my last job I did this with interfaces. Something like: > > define interface web-servers { > # don't back up more than one web server at a time > use 1 kbps > } > > > define interface database-servers { > # don't back up more than one database server at a time > use 1 kbps > } > > > define interface misc-servers { > # try to back up two misc servers at once > # 1xxx is found out by trial and error > use 1xxx kbps > } > > in disklist: > web-1 ... web-servers > web-2 ... web-servers > db-1 ... database-servers > db-2 ... database-servers > misc-1 ... misc-servers > misc-2 ... misc-servers > misc-3 ... misc-servers > misc-4 ... misc-servers > > > The above worked most of the time. Every once in a while I would get > more than I wanted running at once, but it worked well enough. >
Interesting idea Chris. I'll take a look at trying it. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)