Matt Burkhardt wrote:

I'm running out of holding disk space during the backup and I was wondering what I can do. Here's my scenario

I've got a directory called Music that has 54GB on it. My disk has 36GB free. I have a second disk with 34GB free on it. Can I have multiple holding disks?

yes.  Example is in the amanda.conf that is distributed.

If I give the disk list as each subdirectory under Music, will it need less holding space? Should I break up the backup jobs into several ones? Should I just buy a bigger disk?

yes, yes and maybe yes (because they are cheap anyway).

:-)

For splitting large DLE's into smaller ones, see:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_DLEs_With_Exclude_Lists

And, if it the server == client, then the advantage of using a
holdingdisk is not that great, and you can do without a holdingdisk
too (if your CPU is fast enough to feed the tapedevice at a fast rate
when using software compression!).  Just specify "holdingdisk no"
in the dumptype of that DLE (or all of them).

--
Paul