On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:33:02PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> Hello amanda users,
> 
> I'm not sure its "planner", what component handles which order DLEs
> are handled in ?
> 
> On this particular amanda server (one of about a dozen) we are
> running v2.4.2p2.
> 
> I've got a partition of 54Gig, of which about 36 Gig are in use.
> I've an amanda spool of 35 Gig. Fortunately for us compression
> seems to be working pretty well as we are able to use the work/spool
> area rather than going directly to tape.
> 
> Got me wondering though, is amanda saving this DLE for last so that
> it can utilize all of the spool area by itself or where we just lucky ?
> 
> Since this DLE is running 'alone', are we really gaining any performance
> over running in degraded mode ?

Why do you bring up degraded mode?

Degraded mode is when amanda can not write directly to tape AND there
is insufficient, unreserved, holding disk for level 0 dumps.  It then
switches to making only incrementals to the holding disk/

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