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two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-28 10:59:26
Subject: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk
From: Jordan Desroches <jordan.d.desroches AT Dartmouth DOT EDU>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:51:53 -0400
Dear Amanda community,

I am running two dumpers simultaneously, and using software compression. The estimates of the compression are not exact, and I've been running into a problem where the two DLEs AMANDA chooses to dump are bigger when combined than the holding disk. The holding disk fills up before either dump finishes, and the dumps stop. In this situation, what does AMANDA do? So far, the dumps have just hung there, but my timeouts are quite long. I could break the DLEs up into small chunks, but I was wondering if there is a more elegant solution.

Thanks,

Jordan

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Jordan Desroches
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Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
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