Hi all,

We are also using a big holding disk, and I would like amflush not to erase the
files on disk. That way, a restore can be done much quicker, provided that the 
harddisk is still working. Amamda seems capable of backup to disk as well as
to tape. I would like to use both in a redundant scheme.

Does anybody have any experience with this?

(I can copy the files before flushing them, (cp -l) but then amanda doesn't 
know about the disk-files anymore an cannot use them for a restore.

Thanks in advance for any hints!

Regards,

Edwin Hakkennes


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From:   Jay Lessert[SMTP:jayl AT accelerant DOT net]
Sent:   Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:56 PM
To:     Keith Nasman
Cc:     amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject:        Re: Partitioning new drive

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:09:57AM -0700, Keith Nasman wrote:
> I am going to be moving my RedHat server to a new 60Gb hard drive and I am 
> working out my partition table. This machine is my AMANDA tape server and 
> since 60Gb is obscenely more than we need I was thinking of alotting 30Gb 
> for the AMANDA holding. That way AMANDA can put all the dumps in their 
> entirety into the holding area.

Amanda *really* likes that (having enough total holdingdisk to contain
your largest run's total content).

If the rest of your config is set up properly, she can run multiple
backups in parallel without ever having to wait for taper to clear a
holdingdisk file.

I don't care very much how long the tape drive is spinning, but I want
all the dumps/tars finished and my disklist idle and ready for new
business ASAP.

Amanda splits large backups across multiple holdingdisk entries
just dandy, by the way.  Doesn't have to be just one.

Sort of amusing when you 'splain to your boss how at the same time
you're buying the fancy, expensive, FCAL-redundant-power disk arrays
(and corresponding tape libraries), you *also* buying about the same
total GB worth of cheap used disks and dumb disk enclosures off Ebay,
just for holdingdisk.  :-)

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