Re: no holding disk & degraded mode

owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 17/08/2006 23:08:49 : > 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.

1.4 TB
> > 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.
Might help

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