On 08/11/17 03:40 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:50:12 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > YES > > Great, thanks for confirming my understanding. > > A few clarifications: > > > > > > 2) the "without holding disk" scenario would involve: > > > * no global "storage" parameter (or one listing a single storage) > > It must list the main storage. > > Yes -- so either 1) an explicit "storage" line in the amanda.conf file > listing just the main storage, or 2) no "storage" line in the file, > which would result in the main storage being the auto-created one named > the same as the config name, right? right > > > > > > > > (Does having one of the two storages with no volume found drop the > > > entire run into degraded mode?) > > Good question, I think no (If I remember correctly) > > (In my quick testing [with both storages listed on the "storage" line], > amdump *did* drop to degraded mode for the whole run when it couldn't > find a volume in the "offsite" storage [though there was one for the > main storage]; I didn't investigate carefully to see if there was a > setting that could override that behavior. Which make sense. You could set the 'reserve' parameter to 0 if you have enough holding disk.With a small reserve, it still do full backup in degraded mode.
Jean-Louis > > On the other hand, in the "without holding disk" scenario, a missing > "offsite" volume does not trigger degraded mode.) > > Nathan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic region > Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ > <http://www.ontko.com/> > GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt > <http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt> > ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 > Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 This message is the property of CARBONITE, INC. and may contain confidential or privileged information. If this message has been delivered to you by mistake, then do not copy or deliver this message to anyone. Instead, destroy it and notify me by reply e-mail
