On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 17/08/2006 15:03:28 : > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:29:46AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm running a configuration without holding disk. Well, there's one > > > defined actually but none of my DLE use it. > > > > > ... > > > > > > However, I have enough place to store a few degraded backups should it > be > > > needed. And I would like to take advantage of the degraded mode while > > > keeping my "holdingdisk no" option > > > > > > Is there something else I have to configure or is this an intended > > > behaviour of Amanda? > > > > holdingdisk yes > > Yes, but I don't want (for the moment) to use the holding disk during > regular backups; it's on the same RAID5 logical drive as the data to be > backuped. So, using the holding disk would means 2 reads and 1 write > during regular backups instead of 1 read. >
I presume your raid is a pretty substantial size. perhaps ... Set "use" to some value smaller than the data size. Then a full dump will be too large to fit and go direct to tape while incrementals can still fit. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
