Guy Dallaire wrote:
> 
> I finally found the right FM in order to RTFM and proceeded to create the
> RAID-0 holding disk with 2 250Gb SATA drives in order to try to fix the
> trhroughput problem with the tape drive. The raidtools have been replaced by
> the mdadm command.
> 
> I'm back to square one. Even if I use a RAID-0 stripped (64k stripes) array,
> I still can't feed the tape drive adequately when amanda is writing to the
> holding disk while it's being dumped to tape.
> 
> I really wish there was an easy way to instruct amanda to wait for all the
> client files,  before starting dumping the holding disk to tape, but there
> isn't.

Just run the backup without a tape in the drive and then amflush the backup
sometime later.
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