On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:35:18AM -0600, Scott Sanders wrote:
> I'm sure there are several things to consider here but one thing that comes to
> my mind is that your holding disk should be at least large enough to hold one
> nights worth of backups and maybe a little more. That way in the event that
> for some reason amanda can't dump everything to tape at least you have a copy
> on disk that you can flush to tape after you resolve the problem with the tape
> drive.
> 
> Kevin Passey wrote:
> 
> > What is the best size for a holding disk - is it a "how long is a piece
> > string" or are there some optimal values.
> >
> > I have 2 servers I want to back up - the Amanda server 40gb RH Linux box -
> > an WIN NT machine 16gb.
> >

Ditto's on Scott's comments plus with "reserve" set low enough to allow the
scheduled level 0's to be dumped to holding disk.  I'm in the enviable position
of having over a week's worth of holding disk space.  It was nice once when I
forgot to change tape cartridges before a business trip.  Had 6 amflush's to
do to resyncronize.

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