On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:38:59PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > > --On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 15:17:51 -0400 Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it normal for some dumps to go directly to tape, skipping the holding > > > disk? > > > I see that happening sometimes, but wonder if it means I have something > > > misconfigured. > > One thing that will cause that is if there's not enough room on the > > holdindisk. > > Hmm. I think I must have something messed up then. My holding disk is > ~300GB and all my DLE's are under ~60GB compressed. Most DLE's are only > a few gigs.
Have you changed the "reserve" parameter from its default 100%. If not, that would mean only incrementals go to holding disk. In your case, reserve 10, 20, or 30% for incremental in case of dire conditions. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
