On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:38:59PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> > --On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 15:17:51 -0400 Eric Dantan Rzewnicki 
> > <rzewnickie AT rfa DOT org> wrote:
> > > Is it normal for some dumps to go directly to tape, skipping the holding
> > > disk?
> > > I see that happening sometimes, but wonder if it means I have something
> > > misconfigured.
> > One thing that will cause that is if there's not enough room on the 
> > holdindisk.
> 
> Hmm. I think I must have something messed up then. My holding disk is
> ~300GB and all my DLE's are under ~60GB compressed. Most DLE's are only
> a few gigs.

Have you changed the "reserve" parameter from its default 100%.
If not, that would mean only incrementals go to holding disk.
In your case, reserve 10, 20, or 30% for incremental in case of
dire conditions.

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