On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:26:40PM -0500, Marc W. Mengel wrote:
> I never used amanda with negative chunksizes, so I can't help you
> here.  The chunksize doesn't have anything to do with whether something
> is put on disk, it just says what the biggest "chunk" of a backup
> image will be put in one file in that disk.

Not quite true.  Prior to 2.4.2, negative chunksize was "magic" to tell
amanda to bypass holdingdisk.

I used to use that function; in 2.4.2, I've tweaked the number and size
(parameter "use") of my holdingdisk entries to achieve roughly the same
result for my particular installation.  TMTOWTDI.  :-)

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