I'm using AMANDA to back up a disk that is periodically rsynced from

a NAS. At a certain point in the backup, amdump complains that it doesn't have enough diskspace, persumably for the holding disk. Is this something I should be concerned about?

 

Since the files are on a disk on the tapebackup server, I don't need a holding disk: I just want the tape backup to read the files from disk as they are needed; they don't need to be copied to a holding disk, as if the backups could be speeded up by sending them over a network to the server's holding disk.

 

How do I ensure the desired behavior for this setup? Am I missing the point (no doubt I am, and no doubt it's the crucial point).

 

Thanks

 

Contents of the end of amdump follow.

 

 

driver: send-cmd time 12654.349 to taper: FILE-WRITE 00-00088 "/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0" wilf fffffeff9ffeffffff7f "/home/IOMEGANAS/Shared Data/Iomega 1" 0 20070311 0
driver: startaflush: FIRST wilf "/home/IOMEGANAS/Shared Data/Iomega 1" 40579852 176769513
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: want 41301120 K
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: find diskspace: size 41301120 hf 20191476 df 20190836 da 20190836 ha 20191476
find diskspace: not enough diskspace. Left with 21110284 K
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: want 41301120 K
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: find diskspace: size 41301120 hf 20191476 df 20190836 da 20190836 ha 20191476
find diskspace: not enough diskspace. Left with 21110284 K
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: want 41301120 K
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: find diskspace: size 41301120 hf 20191476 df 20190836 da 20190836 ha 20191476
find diskspace: not enough diskspace. Left with 21110284 K
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: want 41301120 K
driver: find_diskspace: time 12654.350: find diskspace: size 41301120 hf 20191476 df 20190836 da 20190836 ha 20191476
find diskspace: not enough diskspace. Left with 21110284 K
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.1"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.2"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.3"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.4"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.5"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.6"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.7"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.8"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.9"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.10"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.11"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.12"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.13"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.14"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.15"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.16"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.17"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.18"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.19"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.20"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.21"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.22"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.23"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.24"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.25"'
taper: r: switching to next holding chunk '"/home/amanda/20070311132701/wilf._home_IOMEGANAS_Shared Data_Iomega 1.0.26"'
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