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Re: Size of holding disk when backing up to HDD

2006-04-16 23:44:42
Subject: Re: Size of holding disk when backing up to HDD
From: David Leangen <amanda AT leangen DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:41:27 +0900
Thank you!

I'm still having trouble with my backup on a particular client, but it
may be due to another issue... So, I'll start another thread.


On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 22:16 -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> David Leangen wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I am backing up to disk. I thought I put away enough holding space, but
> > apparently not. I get the following warning.
> > 
> > WARNING: holding disk /data: only 91831964 KB free (104857600 KB
> > requested)
> > 
> > 
> > How important is this? Am I taking a big performance hit because of
> > this? Or can I ignore this warning?
> 
> It just means you told Amanda you had nearly 105GB of holding disk
> but it only found about 92GB of available space.
> 
> Unless your backups are very large and your tape drive is slow, 92GB
> should be plenty.  If you're not getting errors about running out
> of holdingdisk and dumps going directly to tape, I wouldn't worry
> about it.
> 
> Frank
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > David
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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