On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 at 11:29am, Daniel Bentley wrote

> Currently running Amanda for backups of desktop shares.  The problem we 
> come across is amount of tape used by certain individuals (mostly of the 
> 'managerial persuasion').  We have asked these individuals to limit the 
> size of data kept in their shares many times, but they always 'creep up' 
> above this size, to the point that they start affecting the other backups, 
> come their rotation for a full backup.
> 
> Is there any way to put a 'size cap' on the amount of data being backed up 
> from one particular source (or -all- sources, at that)?  There's a big 
> difference between 'Could you keep the size of the share you want backed 
> up to X?' and 'There is a limit to back up sizes of X.  Anything you have 
> above this WILL NOT be backed up...'

Sounds like a job for quotas to me.  I can't really think of a way of 
enforcing this with amanda.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University