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Re: Strategies for backing up very large volumes

2004-06-21 12:54:37
Subject: Re: Strategies for backing up very large volumes
From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: Jim Potter <jim AT gangermin.co DOT uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:49:00 +0200
Jim Potter wrote:

The most promising method I have found so far should back up all user directories within a year group ending in 0 or 1 as one entry in disklist, 2 or 3 as another and so on. This breaks each year's directory into 5 separate jobs. The problem with this is that amandad seems to have trouble handling requests for estimates of ~30 different disklist entries

That's indeed that normal way.  Look in docs/disklist example
file for the last example.

What exacly is the problem with too many estimates?  Timeout?
(look for etimeout)
udp dgram too long?  (use a recent snaphot, unless you're using HPUX,
where there is some problem in the OS handing large UDP dgarm)

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