Can I put many entry in the disklist?
How it is control by amanda?
How amanda know what entry is the first or next to back up?
for example:
If I have one dirs to back up:
/home (18GB)
and my tape is 4GB.
Shall I broken it in individual subdirs?
How will be my disklist?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: "Marcelo Block Teixeira" <cpd AT cadservice.com DOT br>;
<amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: dump cycle


On Friday 08 August 2003 16:05, Marcelo Block Teixeira wrote:
>I'd like understand this "dump cycle".
>If I setup one area bigger than tape space. What wil happen?
>
'dumpcycle' is the number of days (or weeks) in elapsed time that
amanda has to achieve a level 0 backup of every entry in the
disklist.
'runspercycle' is how many times amanda will be run in dumpcycle days.
For businesses that have no one to change tapes over the weekends,
these are often set to 7 and 5 respectively.

If one area, more specifically, one entry in the disklist is larger
than a tape, it will fail.  amanda cannot span a single disklist
entry (DLE) across more than 1 tape.

The solution is generally to use tar and an exclude file in the
dumptype, using a seperate but except for the exclude file otherwise
identical dumptype, repeat till its small enough to fit.  IMO, better
yet is to use tar with seperate DLE's for each listing a seperate
subdir as its starting point.  I have my /usr dirs broken up into
individual subdirs in this manner here.

Haveing the amount of data broken up into smaller pieces also
facilitates amandas ability to juggle the schedule and achieve a more
uniform amount of tape usage per each run, which is also one of her
targets.

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