User size caps
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...' -- Daniel Bentley - Network Technician, QSI Corporation (www.qsicorp.com) Exploits care not whence the clicks come...
Re: User size caps
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
Re: User size caps
* Joshua Baker-LePain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040308 11:48]: On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 at 11:29am, Daniel Bentley wrote 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. The only thing I could suggest would be dynamically generating an excludes file on the target based on disk space utilization. Not exactly built-in to amanda, but a little less harsh than quotas (although I wouldn't want to be the system administrator (or his boss) when one of the managerial types loses a file and can't get it back...). Best, -- Patrick Michael Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User size caps
Isn't this situation better suited by implementing disk quota ? Unfortunately, the sources in question are Windows shares based on desktop machines. Hence our real, 'direct' control is limited to the server side (via. some kind of 'size throttling' through Amanda and/or SMB), or in creating a special 'shared backup partition' on each machine, size regulation coming from the physical size of the partition. The idea of 'size throttling' would be much more dynamic than physical partitions, but it's the 'kludgibility' of such that doesn't look too promising thusfar... -- Daniel Bentley - Network Technician, QSI Corporation (www.qsicorp.com) Exploits care not whence the clicks come...
