Wayne Richards wrote:
>
> We have been experiencing a lot of failures on full backup with a large dump
> disk.
>
> Our dump disk devices are:
>
> /dev/dsk/c0t13d0s0 8314393 2708 8145398 1% /usr13
> /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s3 17413250 10 17239108 1% /usr14
>
> The holdingdisk definitions are:
>
> holdingdisk hd1 {
> comment "main holding disk"
> directory "/usr13/amanda_holding_disk" # where the holding disk is
> use -2500 mb # how much space can we use on it
> chunksize 0 mb
> }
>
> holdingdisk hd2 {
> comment "main holding disk"
> directory "/usr14/amanda_holding_disk" # where the holding disk is
> use -2500 mb # how much space can we use on it
> chunksize 0 mb
> }
>
> All backups work fine using hd1, but when using hd2, the disk fills; backups
> go into degraded mode and several fail. Is there some limit on the size of
> holding disk that amanda can manage?
Not that I've encountered. I'm using a 75Gb drive as my holding disk.
Backing up 50Gb a night to AIT-II tape from about 200Gb across 80 disks.
Try setting chunksize to 2000Mb (not 2Gb) and see if that fixes things.
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