On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:06:36PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. Is there any such setting then that would > perform what I was once was lead to believe chunksize could control, > ie. specifying a file size over which a backup file should be written > directly to tape, bypassing the holding disk? >
I'm pretty sure the size of the holding disk already does this. If the estimated size of the backup is larger than the holding disk space it is taped directly. For this determination I believe the space available has already been reduced by the percentage specified by the "reserve" parameter in amanda.conf and by the amount of space the other currently running dumps will take. BTW the "negative number" you thought applied to chunksize might have been the holding disk size. A positive number means use up to the specified amount of space while a negative number means use all the space on the disk except the specified amount. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
