On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:35:18AM -0600, Scott Sanders wrote: > I'm sure there are several things to consider here but one thing that comes to > my mind is that your holding disk should be at least large enough to hold one > nights worth of backups and maybe a little more. That way in the event that > for some reason amanda can't dump everything to tape at least you have a copy > on disk that you can flush to tape after you resolve the problem with the tape > drive. > > Kevin Passey wrote: > > > What is the best size for a holding disk - is it a "how long is a piece > > string" or are there some optimal values. > > > > I have 2 servers I want to back up - the Amanda server 40gb RH Linux box - > > an WIN NT machine 16gb. > >
Ditto's on Scott's comments plus with "reserve" set low enough to allow the scheduled level 0's to be dumped to holding disk. I'm in the enviable position of having over a week's worth of holding disk space. It was nice once when I forgot to change tape cartridges before a business trip. Had 6 amflush's to do to resyncronize. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)