Amanda-Users

Re: Does each amanda profile require a different holding disk location?

2004-09-28 23:26:02
Subject: Re: Does each amanda profile require a different holding disk location?
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:21:22 -0400
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:45:17PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I think I just found out why most of my backups are going over the end 
> of the tape.
> 
> Here's a description of my setup:
> 
>    *
...
> 
> And they were all using the same holding disk with autoflush turned on.
> 
> I checked the files in the holding disk and the headers don't identify 
> which profile they're associated with (probably for good reason -- what 
> if you changed a profile name?).
> 
> So I have set up different holding disk directories for each profile.
> 
> Is this documented anywhere?

I don't recall seeing it specified, but I've done it from the start.
    /{w|w2|w3|u|u2}/dumps/amanda/<config>
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