On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:58:33AM +0100, Helas, Stephan wrote: > Hello, > > I use redhat7 with amanda 2.4.2p2 rpm. > I tryed to backup several servers by using holding disk. Without holding Disk the >backup works ok, but with holding disk, the backup hangs after an hour or two. > > Is this a well known failure in this amanda version? How can I fix it?
A guess, your system has a file size limit of 2GB and some dump files exceed that size. Second, you do not have "chunksize" set in amanda.conf. Set chunksize to say 1 GB to avoid the problem. Amanda will then break up the dump file into 1GB size chunks on the holding disk. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
