On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 17/08/2006 15:03:28 :
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:29:46AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm running a configuration without holding disk. Well, there's one 
> > > defined actually but none of my DLE use it.
> > > 
> > ...
> > > 
> > > However, I have enough place to store a few degraded backups should it 
> be 
> > > needed. And I would like to take advantage of the degraded mode while 
> > > keeping my "holdingdisk no" option
> > > 
> > > Is there something else I have to configure or is this an intended 
> > > behaviour of Amanda?
> > 
> > holdingdisk   yes
> 
> Yes, but I don't want (for the moment) to use the holding disk during 
> regular backups; it's on the same RAID5 logical drive as the data to be 
> backuped. So, using the holding disk would means 2 reads and 1 write 
> during regular backups instead of 1 read.
> 

I presume your raid is a pretty substantial size.

perhaps ...
Set "use" to some value smaller than the data size.
Then a full dump will be too large to fit and go
direct to tape while incrementals can still fit.

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