Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: It's important to do the dump direct to tape at the end if you have a small holding disk, Amanda was designed for this case. But hard disk are now cheap, what you propose is a good idea. Patch is welcome. Maybe we should show this to the hackers-list ? S

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: However, the driver always schedules its PORT_WRITE (direct to tape) dumps *after* its holding-based runs. The idea is that dumping directly to tape basically monopolizes the entire server infrastructure, so it's better to get the cooperating dumps out of the way

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's important to do the dump direct to tape at the end if you have a small holding disk, Amanda was designed for this case. But hard disk are now cheap, what you propose is a good idea. Patch is welcome. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: However, the

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
OK, I'll take a swing at this :) On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: I want to avoid to copy ~60 GB from disk to holdingdisk internally at every amdump, so I decided to set them to holdingdisk no -- write the to tape directly. taperalgo first, btw The

Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
At a client I have two DLEs which are local directories on the amanda tapeserver. There is new data dumped there every day during the day. I want to avoid to copy ~60 GB from disk to holdingdisk internally at every amdump, so I decided to set them to holdingdisk no -- write the to tape directly.