On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 at 2:01pm, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:27:48AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Hmm, so it seems that parrallel dumping is incompatible with my goal
> > writing to tape in decreasing size. Although if the taper were set to
> > wait until all dumps were completed, I could set dumporder to "TTTTT"
> > and presumably achieve the fastest overall dump time while still writing
> > to tape in the desired order.
>
> Run amdump without tape and then run amflush to flush the holding disk
> to tape.
1) If you do this, make sure you set your reserve accordingly so that you
still get level 0s.
2) That'll work for some, but I dump ~180GB (after compression) each
night, and my holding disk is "only" 120GB...
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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