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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Re: flush-threshold-* parameters - some clarification needed.
From:       Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau () zmanda ! com>
Date:       2013-03-28 12:32:51
Message-ID: 51543873.1000408 () zmanda ! com
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On 03/28/2013 12:55 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote:
> Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com> writes:
>
>> On 03/27/2013 01:02 PM, Kamil Jońca wrote:
>>> Simple:
>>> Say, I have 1 TB disk for vtapes.
>>> I can create 900 vtapes on this disk. But all of dumps have ~500MB, so
>>> only half of disk are used. And only 900 days are remebered.
>>> And I'm curious if I have better utilization for  disk, so I can have
>>> longer period of dumps.
>> Create 1800 vtapes.
>> The number of slots should not directly depend on the length of the
>> tapetype but on the used size of each slots.
> But in this case there is a risk to get "no space left on device" when,
> in turn, dumps get larger later.
> What then?

You monitor the free space and delete older slot if it become close to full.

Jean-Louis
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