On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 at 10:13pm, rb AT raphinou DOT com wrote

> My tape is on the same server that I want to back-up. Maybe this is not
> optimal, but I can't change it...

Nothing wrong with it, really.

> Due to this, I want to  use a little holding disk, or even not use any
> (I read that if the file to backup is bigger than the holding disk, it
> is directly put on tape) so I can use as much disk space for the
> application running on it. Is this ok? (can it even be done?)

Yep -- you don't even need to define a holdingdisk.

> Also, I saw two syntaxes: holdingdisk and diskdir + disksize. On a
> debian stable, the manpage only mentions holdingdisk, but the
> amanda.conf only has diskdir.....

holdingdisk is the proper syntax (if I understand you properly).

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University