On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Bill Carlson wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've got a puzzler here, any suggestions on how to handle this would be
> great (except using gnutar).
>
> I'm using amanda-2.4.2 on Solaris 2.6, works great. However, my file
> systems are such that I have three file systems that are an order of
> magnitude larger than the rest(18GB vs 2 GB). The problem comes to the
> balance calculation. The larger file systems never get promoted, so they
> are left to be dumped until they are actually due. That isn't a problem
> until 2 biggies are due on the same day, resulting in backup running until
> noon. :)
>
> I had thought no big deal, I'll set the dumpcycle on the biggies to a
> shortened interval and planner will figure it out. But, the balance size
> is calculated based on the estimated runspercycle and total size of level
> 0 dumps, so that adjustment didn't change anything other than increase the
> frequency of "overtime" backups. No help.
>
> As always, in the act of describing the problem, I think I see the
> solution. I should change my dumpcycle to shorter value and override that
> on my smaller filesystems to a longer value. That should bump up the
> balance calculation.
I've been running with this scheme for a week now and it is working as I
expected. The "biggie" file systems are getting promoted as time/space
allow and amdump finished before 8 am every day. Yes!
Bill Carlson
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