On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:25:00AM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote: > > > Why with such a tight setup do you have runtapes set to > > greater than 1. With only 1 tape allowed per day you would > > have gotten a failure to backup that DLE that did not fit. > > This would have been noticed by amanda during the estimate > > phase, before the dump started and noted in the report. > > That is not true, maybe. Since the data of that one client could be on > several hard disks, it would be possible to backup the client to several > tapes, as long as all the single HDs are smaller than the tape capacity. >
Not sure I know what part you feel is not true. You hypothesised a situation where normally every day's dump fit on one tape. Then on one particular day a single DLE grew enough to cause the day's run to require 3 tapes. That would only happen if that one DLE were now larger than a single tape (even for an incremental as the scenario is constructed). With runtapes == 1, amanda would not even start the dump of that DLE. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
