Amanda-Users

Re: What to do about a failing back-up?

2005-03-10 17:42:51
Subject: Re: What to do about a failing back-up?
From: "Erik P. Olsen" <erik AT epo DOT dk>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:34:51 +0100
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:41 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> 
> > There was nothing left in the staging area, but what made me suspicious
> > was the fact that the amflush command took so little time to complete.
> > 
> 
> That's probably becuase with the default value for "reserved", 100%,
> all of the holdingdisk is reserved for incremental backups when
> falling back to degraded mode.
> 
> If you have a large holdingdisk, you may set e.g. "reserve 30", or so
> to let full backups (level 0) to holdingdisk.
> 

Uh, I thought "reserve 30" was default. I've now changed amanda.conf to
specify that directly.

-- 
Regards,
Erik P. Olsen