planner what if questions
Assuming a stable configuration that is configured to use a single tape per run, what happens as either more disks are added or the size of the data grows? It seems to do a good job of delaying or promoting dumps to accomodate fluctuations in the size of the disks, but if the total size is increasing over time, it will eventually be unable to back it all up. My question is, how will I be notified that this is occuring? Increasing numbers of 'full dump of xxx delayed' messages followed by appearances of 'last full dump of xxx overwritten in y days' ? Or will it give out some other warning? On a related note, if it all fits on one tape now and I change runtapes to 2, will it only use the second tape if it needs to or will it constantly be promoting dumps to fill the two tapes every day? Thanks for any insight, Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: planner what if questions
... My question is, how will I be notified that this is occuring? Increasing numbers of 'full dump of xxx delayed' messages followed by appearances of 'last full dump of xxx overwritten in y days' ? ... I think that's correct. On a related note, if it all fits on one tape now and I change runtapes to 2, will it only use the second tape if it needs to or will it constantly be promoting dumps to fill the two tapes every day? It will only use a second (or third, or fourth, etc) tape if needed. Tape size time number of tapes is an upper bound, not a target. Frank John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
