Re: not recognizing holdingdisk define?

2014-02-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/27/2014 05:54 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: I see, I think then that's why there's a separate disk cache option (tapetype:part-cache-type)? So if have a very large DLE and I use disk for cache, it will spool chunks to disk and starting streaming to tape before the whole DLE is written to

Re: not recognizing holdingdisk define?

2014-02-28 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:20:29PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: I believe the whole dump has to be done before it starts to write to tape. This prevents incomplete dumps from wasting space on the tape. I try to have numerous smaller DLEs, so that it takes several DLEs to fill a tape.

Re: can amanda auto-size DLE's?

2014-02-28 Thread Debra S Baddorf
one small comment inserted below On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:33 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Oliver already provided good answers, I'll just add a bit. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:35:08AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Muchael, ... 3) I had figured that when restoring, amrestore