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When the optimized blanking strategy has not been configured, Cedar
Backup uses a simplistic approach: rewritable media is blanked at the
beginning of every week, period.
</p><p>
Since rewritable media can be blanked only a finite number of times
before becoming unusable, some users — especially users of
rewritable DVD media with its large capacity — may prefer to
blank the media less often.
</p><p>
If the optimized blanking strategy is configured, Cedar Backup will
use a blanking factor and attempt to determine whether future backups
will fit on the current media. If it looks like backups will fit,
then the media will not be blanked.
</p><p>
This feature will only be useful (assuming single disc is used for the
whole week's backups) if the estimated total size of the weekly backup
is considerably smaller than the capacity of the media (no more than
50% of the total media capacity), and only if the size of the backup
can be expected to remain fairly constant over time (no frequent rapid
growth expected).
</p><p>
There are two blanking modes: daily and weekly. If the weekly
blanking mode is set, Cedar Backup will only estimate future capacity
(and potentially blank the disc) once per week, on the starting day of
the week. If the daily blanking mode is set, Cedar Backup will
estimate future capacity (and potentially blank the disc) every time
it is run. <span class="emphasis"><em>You should only use the daily blanking mode in
conjunction with daily collect configuration, otherwise you will risk
losing data.</em></span>
</p><p>
If you are using the daily blanking mode, you can typically set the
blanking value to 1.0. This will cause Cedar Backup to blank the
media whenever there is not enough space to store the current day's
backup.
</p><p>
If you are using the weekly blanking mode, then finding the correct
blanking factor will require some experimentation. Cedar Backup
estimates future capacity based on the configured blanking factor.
The disc will be blanked if the following relationship is true:
</p><pre class="screen">
bytes available / (1 + bytes required) ≤ blanking factor
</pre><p>
Another way to look at this is to consider the blanking factor as a
sort of (upper) backup growth estimate:
</p><pre class="screen">
Total size of weekly backup / Full backup size at the start of the week
</pre><p>
This ratio can be estimated using a week or two of previous backups.
For instance, take this example, where March 10 is the start of the
week and March 4 through March 9 represent the incremental backups
from the previous week:
</p><pre class="screen">
/opt/backup/staging# du -s 2007/03/*
3040 2007/03/01
3044 2007/03/02
6812 2007/03/03
3044 2007/03/04
3152 2007/03/05
3056 2007/03/06
3060 2007/03/07
3056 2007/03/08
4776 2007/03/09
6812 2007/03/10
11824 2007/03/11
</pre><p>
In this case, the ratio is approximately 4:
</p><pre class="screen">
6812 + (3044 + 3152 + 3056 + 3060 + 3056 + 4776) / 6812 = 3.9571
</pre><p>
To be safe, you might choose to configure a factor of 5.0.
</p><p>
Setting a higher value reduces the risk of exceeding media capacity
mid-week but might result in blanking the media more often than is necessary.
</p><p>
If you run out of space mid-week, then the solution is to run the
rebuild action. If this happens frequently, a higher blanking factor
value should be used.
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