On Tuesday 15 February 2005 19:49, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>If you have plenty of holdingdisk space, I would think they would >>> go there. Even with the default reserve of 100%, you should still >>> get the incremental. You might have to look in the debug files to >>> see why they were completely skipped. >> >>If the dumps are too big, and the holding disks reserve is at the >>default of 100%, the dump *will not be done*. >> >>Set the reserve on the holding disk, if you've got a ton, to >> something like 30%, which will let it do fulls till there is only >> 30% of the holding disk left. > >The reserve is set to 40%. Amanda is not dumping anything once the > planner decides it won't fit on the tape, according to the debug > log.
Whats 60% of the holding disk in gigabytes? The tape is how many gigabytes? The dle is how many gigabytes? If the dle is bigger than the tape, then amanda won't do it, a strong argument for either a bigger tape drive, or breaking the dle up into smaller pieces. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
