one possible solution Re: Nitpick -- alternative to spindle numbers
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.
--
Christopher McCrory
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Re: one possible solution Re: Nitpick -- alternative to spindle numbers
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)
Re: Nitpick -- alternative to spindle numbers
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: I would like to see a way of saying do not back more than one of these DLEs at the same time. Duly noted. I don't see a quick way to do that, but I'll create a bug for it so it's not forgotten. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
