>Is there a reason indexing isn't on by default? They don't really take up
>that much space ...
I beg to differ:
$ du -sk /var/amanda/index/champion
4641743 /var/amanda/index/champion
Yup. Four and a half *GBytes*.
Now, granted, this is on a very large Amanda configuration. But it's
not peanuts even in my "small" configs.
>... and recovery is an all or nothing deal without them. ...
Not at all, although it depends on how things are set up. Using dump
(instead of GNU tar) provides a fairly easy to manage shell to pick
and choose what to restore. Knowing which tapes are needed might be an
issue -- it depends on the restore scenerio.
>Just curious as why some of the defaults are the way they are.
Ah, now that's a completely different question :-). The answer, as is
often the case, is "because it's always been that way". Changing the
default could be a *big* surprise to folks who upgrade.
>Frank
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu
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