Actually, it's a performance management thing. If you have several
partitions on one physical drive, you can give them all the same spindle
number, and AMANDA will only pull one backup from each spindle at a time, to
keep from thrashing your drives. I use this on my older firewalls (200MHz or
less) to keep the backups from taking over the machine. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:29 AM
> To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: What does "-1" mean in disklist
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 09:41, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM 
> wrote:
> >What does the "-1" mean in the following disklist line:
> >
> >www /home2 nocomp-user -1 local
> 
> According to the notes in the sample disklist, its a spindle number 
> "placeholder", whatever that is.  Something to do with a raid array 
> that allows each disk/spindle to be addressed individually.  A 
> method of backup up each single disk in a raid (I think).
> 
> Possibly usefull to those with raids.  Untested here, no raid.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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>