On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> OK, I have large file support working on my dumpdisks. How do I tell Amanda
> not to break up files?
I wouldn't do that. There's no performance hit to chunking, plus if
you have multiple holding disks, it allows you to dump a filesystem
that's larger than any one of them, by splitting it across holding
disks.
But you can if you want. See the comments in example/amanda.conf:
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/dumps/amanda" # where the holding disk is
use 290 Mb # how much space can we use on it
# a non-positive value means:
# use all space but that value
chunksize 1Gb # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
# dumped on multiple files on holding disks
# N Kb/Mb/Gb split images in chunks of size N
# The maximum value should be
# (MAX_FILE_SIZE - 1Mb)
# 0 same as INT_MAX bytes
# -1 same as -INT_MAX bytes
# -N Kb/Mb/Gb dont split, dump images larger than
# N directly to tape (example: -2 Gb)
}
I'd suggest sticking with chunksize 1 Gb if you don't have a good
reason to disable chunking.
-Mitch
