On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:47:29PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki 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.
> Those DLE's with an estimated size larger than the configured value
> for holdingdisk will bypass holdingdisk an dump directly to tape.
> I noticed that the example amanda.conf file has specified "use 290 m"
> for the holdingdisk section.
> Many people seem to forget to adapt that arbitrary number there.

I have holding disk defined like this:

holdingdisk holding {
    directory "/holding"
    use 0
    chunksize 0
}
#diskdir "/holding"     # where the holding disk is
#disksize 295 MB            # how much space can we use on it

the 2 commented out option were in the example config and I was using
those for awhile, but noticed that these, diskdir and disksize, are not
in man amanda, while the holdingdisk name {} is.

I didn't start a new thread on this because like the OP I'm using
filetapes and am on Debian Sarge: amanda 2.4.4p3-2, 3.0.14a-1. Clients
are a mix of Win NT, Win2k, Debian Sarge and Debian Woody (amanda
2.4.2p2-4).

I'm beginning to wonder if I need to roll my own amanda debian packages
...

gah ... nevermind ... I've been reading that disksize 295MB as 295GB
until now ... just noticed as I was about to hit send.

But, which of those 2 ways of specifying the holding disk is correct?

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