On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:47:50PM -0600, Deb Baddorf wrote:
> What kind of optimiaztion does amanda use while flushing
> dumps to tape?
> 
> While doing the dump initially,  she seems to
> optimize to get the small jobs done first, and thus they
> go onto tape in a similar order.   But I'm currently without
> a stacker.  So only the first part of the dumps make it
> to tape "live"  (so to speak)  and the rest get flushed as I
> manually mount tapes.   I'm hoping that some kind of
> knapsack-packing algorithm is used ..... to fit the largest
> files on the tape first,   but then to add smaller ones to
> fill the top of the "sack".
>      My archival "do all the level 0's" is taking up 5 tapes,
> hence the optimization question!

There is no optimazation, first in, first out.
That's a need feature.

Jean-Louis
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