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Re: What does "-1" mean in disklist

2002-09-03 20:09:05
Subject: Re: What does "-1" mean in disklist
From: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To: "Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems DOT com>, "'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:11:00 -0400
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 11:50, Bort, Paul wrote:
>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.

Thanks, as you could tell, I was in over my head there.

>> -----Original Message-----

[snip useless blather]

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