On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:56:30AM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
> is there a way to influence the planner not only such that it
> balances out the space across all days, but also that it tries
> spreading out level 0s across all hosts per day

That's what amanda try to do since amanda-2.4.4.
If amanda doesn't succeed, you should try Paul's idea to force
some full dump.

Jean-Louis

> , so that I not end up
> having one host dump all fs's at L0 one day, then the next host on the
> next day?
> 
> While I can see scenarios in which it is desirable to have as many level0s
> per host on the same day as possible, in my case I do backups over a slow
> (ADSL via IPSEC VPN link), which take a long time. So I would like to
> have it do at most 2 level0 dumps (out of abt 5 filesystems each) per
> day per host?
> 
> the dumporder parameter is only checked by the driver, after the planner
> made its decisions, right?
> 
> Finally, I would like to repear my question whether it's possible to
> run the planner standalone to find out what it would do on the next run
> without actually performing the backup..
> 
> thanks
> 
> Mathias Körber
> mathias AT koerber DOT org

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