Jon,

I'm sorry, I am still doing something wrong and need additional guideance.

It is apparently that I am still not utilizing the work area and need
to know which switch I set wrong, dispite (I'd thought) following your
reply email.

Dump time is still equal to tape time, a good indication that I'm not
using the work area.

First, Solaris 9 with Amanda 2.4.4

I have changed the "reserve" parameter from commented out (prior to
the friday night run) to 30, and this morning, lowered it to 10. This
I had thought was the cuprit.

> grep reserve amanda.conf
reserve 10 # percent

holdingdisk hd1 {
    comment "main holding disk"
    directory "/amanda/work"    # where the holding disk is
    use 70 Gb           # how much space can we use on it
                        # a non-positive value means:
                        #        use all space but that value
    chunksize 1Gb       # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
                        # dumped on multiple files on holding disks
                        #  N Kb/Mb/Gb split images in chunks of size N
                        #             The maximum value should be
                        #             (MAX_FILE_SIZE - 1Mb)
                        #  0          same as INT_MAX bytes
    }

I do not believe holdingdisk is set to no in the dumptype.

I use dumptype nocomp-root or nocomp-user for all but one DLE 
which uses "user-tar" (that is our OS X client).

define dumptype nocomp-root {
    comp-root
    comment "Root partitions without compression"
    compress none
}

define dumptype nocomp-user {
    comp-user
    comment "Non-root partitions on slow machines"
    compress none
}

define dumptype user-tar {
    root-tar
    comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
    priority medium
}

                                                thank you,

                                                Brian



On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:59:27PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:18:15PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > 
> > Hello amanda users,
> > 
> > I'm confused as to why these dumps, where are late in to be
> > dumped today (there are 50 some entries in the disklist) are
> > not making use of the work area.
> > 
> > The current partition is only provide 10 Gig and the work area
> > is 67 Gig and is completely free.
> > 
> > Once earlier/completed DLE finish with the work area the work
> > area is re-used by DLE that are dumped later in the amdump run.
> > Or so I'd thought...
> > 
> As you are dumping direct to tape.
> 
> My first thought is you have defined your holding disk incorrectly
> (eg syntax or spelling error) or you have "reserve"d too much of it
> for incrementals (the default is 100%) in degraded mode.
> 
> It is also possible you have "holdingdisk no" in your dumptype.
> 
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