Re: new splitsize warning (Was: Amanda's future?)

2010-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>Is this a case where verbosity is a positive? >>> >>> >>>WARNING: shop /home: fallback_splitsize of 10M is < 0.1% of tape length. >>>This may create > 1000 parts, severely degrading backup/

Re: new splitsize warning (Was: Amanda's future?)

2010-03-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>Is this a case where verbosity is a positive? >> >> >>WARNING: shop /home: fallback_splitsize of 10M is < 0.1% of tape length. >>This may create > 1000 parts, severely degrading backup/restore >> performance. To remedy, create/set a split_disk

Re: new splitsize warning (Was: Amanda's future?)

2010-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:59:23AM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >... > >> Yes, I just added this warning. Some refinement may be in order, so >> let me know what you think. >> >> The problem is that Amanda's fallback_splitsize defaults to 10M, an

Re: new splitsize warning (Was: Amanda's future?)

2010-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >I'm glad my tarball worked for you. I'll find out from Jean-Louis how >to generate snapshots with the datestamp, in case I need to do so in >the future. > >But you've brought up a new topic, so I've changed the subject line: > >On Sun, Feb 28,

Re: new splitsize warning (Was: Amanda's future?)

2010-02-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Is this a case where verbosity is a positive? > > > WARNING: shop /home: fallback_splitsize of 10M is < 0.1% of tape length. > This may create > 1000 parts, severely degrading backup/restore performance. > To remedy, create/set a split_diskbuf

Re: new splitsize warning (Was: Amanda's future?)

2010-02-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:59:23AM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: ... > > Yes, I just added this warning. Some refinement may be in order, so > let me know what you think. > > The problem is that Amanda's fallback_splitsize defaults to 10M, and > I've seen a number of users recently who are us

new splitsize warning (Was: Amanda's future?)

2010-02-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I'm glad my tarball worked for you. I'll find out from Jean-Louis how to generate snapshots with the datestamp, in case I need to do so in the future. But you've brought up a new topic, so I've changed the subject line: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > WARNING: shop /home: