On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:32:31AM -0500, Dan Willis wrote: > Has anyone successfully used an NFS mount as a secondary holding disk?
I currently am. Actually it's the *only* holdingdisk. :-) > Can backups still be run through dump or should they all be tar going > this route? Makes absolutely no difference. It's just holdingdisk, ordinary file open/write/read, nothing special from a functionality POV. > Or is this just not advisable at all? As long as you've comprehended the bandwidth costs, there is no particular problem. In my case, I'm taking about a 25% backup window elapsed time hit, but a cheap 200GB IDE disk in a castoff Linux box is freeing up six very expensive Solaris fibre-channel disks for other purposes. (As soon as I get around to acquiring GB-E and HVD SCSI cards for the linux box, *it* becomes the new Amanda server and the 25% hit goes away...) -- Jay Lessert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461 Beaverton OR, USA (fax)1.503.466.9472
