Re: Backup priorities and initialization of backup

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gil Naveh wrote: Hello, I am quit new with Amanda and I don’t understand an important concept regarding Amanda. I realize that Amanda decides what type of backup to perform (level 0 , level 1 etc) according to its algorithm. However, how does it knows which backup level to perform when a user

Re: Backup priorities and initialization of backup

2005-01-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:11:06AM -0600, Gil Naveh wrote: > Hello, I am quit new with Amanda and I don't understand an important concept > regarding Amanda. > > I realize that Amanda decides what type of backup to perform (level 0 , > level 1 etc) according to its algorithm. > > However, how doe

Backup priorities and initialization of backup

2005-01-11 Thread Gil Naveh
Hello, I am quit new with Amanda and I don’t understand an important concept regarding Amanda. I realize that Amanda decides what type of backup to perform (level 0 , level 1 etc) according to its algorithm. However, how does it knows which backup level to perform when a user have a tape

Priorities, amanda speed

2001-01-19 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
More on the same story .. Im getting there :) Seems that the bottleneck indeed was the gzip process .. I've changed my disklist/amanda.conf to no longer compress the images, and instead rely on the hardware compression in the LTO drive (trading tape space for speed ;) ), and the results are rath

Re: Priorities ?

2001-01-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:47:16PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jan 18, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) How does amanda decide which disks to dump first ? > > Basically, it starts 3 slow/large dumps (taken out of the end of the > backup queue) in parallel with

RE: Priorities ?

2001-01-18 Thread Chris Herrmann
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerhard den Hollander Sent: Friday, 19 January 2001 06:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Priorities ? I have a bunch of disks Im amanda-dumping 4 18G disks, a couple od smaller disks and a 420G RAID5 array Now obviously even a level 3 dump of the 420G dsk array is going to take

Re: Priorities ?

2001-01-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 18, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Therefore, I'd like ot tell amanda to start work on the 420G disk array > first. The only way to ensure it starts first is to get the others delayed with starttime. But you probably don't want to do that. Consider increasing m

Re: Priorities ?

2001-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > I have a bunch of disks Im amanda-dumping > 4 18G disks, a couple od smaller disks and a 420G RAID5 array > > Now obviously even a level 3 dump of the 420G dsk array is going to take > longer than a 0 dump of the smalles disks. > > Therefore, I'd like ot tell am

Priorities ?

2001-01-18 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
I have a bunch of disks Im amanda-dumping 4 18G disks, a couple od smaller disks and a 420G RAID5 array Now obviously even a level 3 dump of the 420G dsk array is going to take longer than a 0 dump of the smalles disks. Therefore, I'd like ot tell amanda to start work on the 420G disk array firs