I'll tell him to upgrade when he gets back; I'm sure he'll be thrilled (it
worked FINE when I left...) ;-)
In the meanwhile, do you think setting the comprate to something like 95%
would help it estimate better, thus solving this problem? Or is there
another way to get it to make more accurate estimates? I ask because though
I could set the holdingdisk no, that would be for the whole dump in amanda,
which is actually responsible for dumping a whole slew of machines and I
don't want them all to operate with holdingdisk turned off.
Thanks again,
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Louis Martineau
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:59 PM
> To: Brian Sweeney
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Greetings and questions
>
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> You are using an old version, tell your co-worker to upgrade :-)
>
> In this old release, amanda will use all space on the holding disk
> if the dump size is larger than the estimate. You can temporarily
> create a dumptype for this disk with "holdingdisk no".
>
> Jean-Louis
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:45:23PM -0700, Brian Sweeney wrote:
> > Hello all-
> >
> > I'm new to list, having subscribed myself today because I'm
> having problems
> > with an Amanda backup system I'm administering for a co-worker
> while he's on
> > vacation. Here's the situation:
> >
> > The system has been running fine for about a month. On monday,
> we added a
> > new machine to the disks list. Since then, the backups keep failing. I
> > believe I've traced the problem to an error I found in the amdump files:
>
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