I have a 35Gb holding disk on the machine running Amanda right now, which
with compression should hold about 1/2 of what we are attempting to backup,
especially if I can get it down to just incrementals during the week. I have
had several suggestions about doing a separate run for archives and letting
Amanda still do fulls and incrementals, but that seems like it would waste a
lot of tape in the end.
markh
-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Collinsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:30 AM
To: Mark Holm
Cc: 'Paul Bijnens'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Newbie and not quite understanding ...
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Mark Holm wrote:
> My only other option is to make every dump a
> full dump like we do now, but I am pretty sure I cannot stream it through
my
> tape drive every evening before the traffic starts to pick up again.
The easy way around this problem is to use holding disk(s). Disk is
dirt cheap these days. Put in enough to hold an entire night's run
and you can stream all your dumps to disk quickly. Then you tape
drive can take its sweet time pulling them off the holding disk and
doesn't have to finish before people start arriving in the morning.
-Mitch
