I don't know much about the rait driver. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable on the list will respond. I was unclear what you meant about moving to "diskless backups"...
Steve
Brian Cuttler wrote:
Ted, Steve, Amanda users, Stupid question, how smart is the rait driver for disk ?If you put the spool area on the output disk will it juggle the space ok ? Will it know to move the file from one directory to another (move the file pointer # mv perhaps) rather than having to copy all the bits and then remove the original ? I only ask because someone at my site is looking to move to diskless backups... thanks, BrianTed, I've been using a 2 TB disk array for the past month or so and it's been working great for me without a holding disk. Using a holding disk will require more free disk space plus the additional time to transfer from the holding disk to the backup disk. I recommend getting a patch from Jean-Louis Martineau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) which prevents a client error from forcing Amanda to go into degraded mode. When Amanda operates in degraded mode, it will only write to the holding disk, which in my case doesn't exist. But the patch prevents client-side errors from putting Amanda into degraded mode which allows my backups to continue being written to the backup disks. Steve Ted Cabeen wrote:If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large disk array, is there any reason to use a holding disk?-- Steven M. Wilson, Systems and Network Manager Markey Center for Structural Biology Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 765.496.1946
-- Steven M. Wilson, Systems and Network Manager Markey Center for Structural Biology Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 765.496.1946
