On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 11:09am, John Oliver wrote

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:49:31PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > OK, from this all we know that amanda was dumping hda2 straight to tape 
> > (no holding disk involved).  You don't mention what type of tape drive you 
> > have, but if cm can't crank out the (compressed) bits and put them over 
> > the network at the tape's streaming speed, your tape won't be streaming 
> > and will have reduced capacity.
> 
> OK, this led me to my answer... :-)  I had never really paid a whole lot
> of attention to holdingdisk :-)  I noticed it was going to /var/tmp,
> which is mounted on a filesystem that doesn't have a whole bunch of free
> space.  So I created /hold and mounted it where I do, and changed
> holdingdisk appropriately.  That ought to take care of it... :-)

Well, it'll use a holding disk now.  But does it solve your scheduling 
problems?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University