On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Marcus wrote:

In amanda.conf it says
"If a dump is too big to fit on the holding disk than
it will be written directly to tape."

I'm hoping to write 200g at a time to DLT, and would
like to stream it if possible. Does that mean I need
200g of holding disk?

Yep.

I scrounged up 20g, but another

180g doesn't look likely.

Huh?  Disks are dirt cheap these days.  Look at this one:

http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144309&CMP=OTC-Froogle&ATT=Western+Digital+Caviar+SE+WD2500JB+250GB+7200+RPM+IDE+Ultra+ATA100+Hard+Drive

250 GB for $110.  That's nothing compared to what you'll be spending on
a rack of tapes, and what you probably already paid for the DLT drive.

-Mitch