Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.03.2014 17:52, schrieb Michael Stauffer: > Thanks Stefan! I'll take a look. > > How did this work for you in terms of daily, or almost daily, creating new > DLE's? I imagine it made for near-constant level 0 dumps? Maybe that was > what you needed anyway with lots of new data? I have to adm

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-12 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks Stefan! I'll take a look. How did this work for you in terms of daily, or almost daily, creating new DLE's? I imagine it made for near-constant level 0 dumps? Maybe that was what you needed anyway with lots of new data? -M On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > A

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.03.2014 14:10, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Aside from this I back then had some other scripts that generated > include-lists resulting in chunks of <= X GB (smaller than one tape) ... > I wanted to dump the videos in my mythtv-config and had the problem of > very dynamic data in there ;-

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-05 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks again Jon - very helpful as usual. -M On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Any thoughts on how I can approach this? If amanda can't do it, I > > > thought I > > > > > might try a scrip

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-05 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks Debra, this is very helpful. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Comments on questions that are at the very bottom. > > On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Michael Stauffer > wrote: > > > > > 3) I had figured that when restoring, amrestore has to read in a > complete > > >

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.02.2014 06:33, schrieb Jon LaBadie: > Sure, great idea. Then all you would need to configure is one DLE > starting at "/". Amanda would break things up into sub-DLEs. A bit off topic maybe .. but: what I wish for for years now (and never take the time to sit down and script it) is a helpe

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote: > > ... > > > > Any thoughts on how I can approach this? If amanda can't do it, I > > thought I > > > > might try a script to create DLE's of a desired size based on > > disk-usage, > > > > then run the script everytime I wanted to d

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-03 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Comments on questions that are at the very bottom. On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: > > > 3) I had figured that when restoring, amrestore has to read in a complete > > > dump/tar file before it can extract even a single file. So if I have a > > > single DLE that's ~2TB that f

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-03 Thread Michael Stauffer
Yes thanks, this is what I do. I've had some complication running the restore from the backup server rather than the client, but I'll worry about that later. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > one small comment inserted below > > On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:33 PM, Jon LaBadie

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-03-03 Thread Michael Stauffer
> > > > 3) I had figured that when restoring, amrestore has to read in a > complete > > > dump/tar file before it can extract even a single file. So if I have a > > > single DLE that's ~2TB that fits (with multiple parts) on a single > tape, > > > then to restore a single file, amrestore has to rea

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-02-28 Thread Debra S Baddorf
one small comment inserted below On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:33 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Oliver already provided good answers, I'll just add a bit. > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:35:08AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Muchael, >> > ... >> >>> 3) I had figured that when restoring, amrestore has t

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
Oliver already provided good answers, I'll just add a bit. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:35:08AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Muchael, > ... > > > 3) I had figured that when restoring, amrestore has to read in a complete > > dump/tar file before it can extract even a single file. So if I have a >

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-02-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Muchael, > 1) if I have multiple DLE's in my disklist, then tell amdump to perform a > level 0 dump of the complete config, each DLE gets written to tape as a > separate dump/tar file (possibly in parts if the tar is > part-size). Is > that right? Yes > 2) If multiple DLE's are processed in a si

can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-02-27 Thread Michael Stauffer
Amanda 3.3.4 Hi, I'm guessing the answer is no since I haven't read about this, but maybe... I'm hoping amanda might be able to auto-size DLE's into sub-DLE's of an approximate size, say 500GB. My understanding is this: 1) if I have multiple DLE's in my disklist, then tell amdump to perform a