What are the advantages/disadvantages of using the holding disk? What are the advantages/disadvantages of dumping stuff straight to tape?
We have a tapeserver which is our fileserver and as such is just backing itself up. When we upgraded from 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2p2 the backups suddenly started taking longer. It's just accured to me one of the differences I had to make that could be causing this. That is a negative chunksize was no longer supported in 2.4.2p2. A negative chunksize meant that all dumps larger than the chunksize value was dumped straight to disk. So I'm thinking about testing the backups on that server without using the holding disk. How is this done, is there a way of specifying it in the amanda.conf for all dumptypes as well as somehow specifying it for individual dumptypes? Why was this disabled or has it been replaced by another feature I don't know about. David Flood Systems Administrator
