Amanda-Users

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-11 17:34:16
Subject: Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:18:59 -0400
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:58:09PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> >>>>> "Jon" == Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> writes:
> 
>     Jon> So far your DLE's seem ok to me.  The one part I question is
>     Jon> "global".  What is your global definition?  Is it even
>     Jon> specifying GNUTAR as the dump program?
> 
> My global is:
> 
> define dumptype global {
>     comment "Global definitions"
>     index yes
>     compress none
>     program "GNUTAR"
>     dumpcycle 4
> }
> 
> I'm thinking about changing the compress to something different from
> none, disable the hardware compression (don't know how yet), and let
> amanda manage the tape size in a more informed way. Maybe I'll have to
> run tapetype again with the hardware compression disabled to get a
> more precise measurement of the tape capacity.
> 
> I get the following dump summary:
>                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> omni         /           1  685840 685840   --    3:223397.6   3:223394.9
> omni         /boot       1      10     10   --    0:00 130.5   0:03   2.9
> omni         /home/ag    1    2120   2120   --    0:011588.8   0:011673.3
> omni         /home/hm    0 74406807440680   --   17:387029.5  44:382778.5
> omni         /home/nt    0 1575509015755090   --   32:398043.1  92:552825.9
> omni         /home/uz    1    8120   8120   --    0:023384.3   0:023687.6
> omni         /root       1     330    330   --    0:001879.1   0:01 293.9
> omni         /usr        1   55220  55220   --    0:381435.3   0:134100.1
> omni         -ap/user/ag 1      10     10   --    0:00 206.7   0:03   3.0
> omni         -ap/user/hm 1      10     10   --    0:00 195.1   0:03   3.1
> omni         -ap/user/nt 1      10     10   --    0:00 118.8   0:04   2.7
> omni         -ap/user/uz 1  119180 119180   --    0:313807.1   0:333635.5
> 
> where the -ap/user/* disks (except the last one) always get about
> 10K since ever.

These are level 1 dumps.  Maybe no changes?
Did you get the same results on the last level 0?
If I recall, these are mail dirs, is there stuff there?

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