> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chris Hoogendyk > Sent: June 30, 2009 13:52 > To: AMANDA users > Subject: Amanda's planning for use of holding disk space > > So, after 3 years of pressure and inadequate backups, my one department > that never has enough money to do anything has finally bought a tape > library. I'm setting it up on the existing server, because they can't > afford the other components to set up an Amanda backup server (even > though I have a hand-me-down server with no disk drives).
My deepest sympathies... I find myself operating that way far more often than I care to admit :) > I've scrounged > space on a few drives for holding disk space, but there's no symmetry in > size, and the smaller ones won't do for the larger DLE's. > <....> Why not save yourself a bit of trouble, and use LVM to take those odd-sized disks, and just make up one big JBOD array? The beauty of doing it that way is, you can have one larger filesystem spanning the multiple disks, and it's pretty easy to add more physical disk to the array as money (or scrounging) provides. Cheers This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
