Joshua,

If the holding disk fills during a run, will amanda switch to
no-holding disk mode or will it fail partitions that haven't
yet dumped ?

ie: situation I wrote about a couple of days ago. Two amanda
servers running concurrently, one for local disk used what it
wanted of the /amanda/work and the server that handles (client!=server)
found at some point that there was no more holding disk space.
Additional partitions failed, rather than switching modes or delaying
the dumps temporarilly. Amanda will not make the switch mid-run ?

                                                thanks,

                                                Brian

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 9:23am, Brian Cuttler wrote
> 
> > I know this is a loaded question... but why do I have it in my
> > head that if there is no spool area dumps will run anyway (although
> > rather slowly) dumping directly to tape.
> >
> > Did I just make that up or is/was there some truth to it ?
> 
> You didn't make it up -- that's correct.
> 
> > If that is a process, what is the proper term for it ?
> 
> I don't know that there's an official term for it, other than 'running 
> with no holding disk'.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>