> On Friday 29 October 2004 23:31, Joe Rhett wrote:
> >Farther down are 15, 20, and 30 gigabyte filesystems, which it
> > scheduled at the very last. One per tape, with no small filesystems
> > filling up the tapes.
 
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:40:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Hmmm, I'm using the latest 2.4.5 snapshot, with the taperalgo set to 
> largestfit, and this:
> dumporder "STTT" # specify the priority order of each dumper
> And a typical backup session will start with the largest and work down, like 
> this:

Having it go largest to smallest would produce almost identical tape usage.
One filesystems per tape for 2 tapes, then everything else jammed onto three
tapes.  We normally use only three (and often two) per night.

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