On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:52:54PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Doesn't Amanda require a "backup" partition?
Amanda likes to have holding disks to work from, but I don't think you're absolutely required to have one. > Doesn't the partition also > need to be the size of your largest backup target? Definitely not. Been there, done that - I inherited an amanda server that was backing up ~15G/day with a 7G holding disk and the largest backup target was 9G. (I added a 30G drive just for holding space shortly after discovering this...) It stops bothering the backup clients a lot quicker if the entire run fits into the holding disk (since write-to-disk is faster than write-to-tape), but it's also capable of backing up directly to tape. What you're probably thinking of is amanda's inability to allow a single target to span multiple tapes. If a target is larger than your tapes (after compression), amanda isn't currently able to back it up. That's one of the things currently being worked on and I think a patch may already exist, but it's not considered release- quality yet. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
