On Mon, 27 Aug at 10:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> Do you know if it is possible to have Amanda backup to the holding disk
> instead of to tape? The reason is that my tape drive will arrive in two
> weeks, but my professor would like Amanda to be installed on the pc and
> backing up to the holding disk in the meantime. When the tape drive
> arrives, then I can dump the contents of the holding disk to tape.
If there's no tape, amanda will leave as many images as possible on the
holding disk. When the tape drive arrives, you can 'amflush' them to
tape. If you're starting out this way, you'll need to:
1) Have a holding disk big enough to hold one full backup of every
disklist entry, as well as incrementals.
2) Set the "reserve" parameter (how much of the holding disk amanda
reserves for incremental dumps) low enough to have the space required by
the fulls of step 1.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
