Amanda-Users

Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-15 13:43:37
Subject: Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk
From: Brian Cuttler <brian AT nnewton.wadsworth DOT org>
To: Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT iro.umontreal DOT ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:26:20 -0500
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:42:54PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:53:24AM -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> > After further thought I believe Alex was correct about the
> > scheduler limiting itself to what will fit, so increasing
> > runtapes to 2 should let you get incrementals of everthing
> > on the day the full of your big DLE occurs.
> 
> You can also set maxdumpsize to a bigger value.

If you are really looking to get all of the dumps, regardless of what
will actually fit on the tape you could always lie about the tape length.
Let it fail on EOF and keep the rest in the work area.


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