On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:11:36PM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: > when using amanda with vfs are holding pools still needed? can (or > should) they be on the same physical disks? is amanda smart enough > to handle it as a move operation, or will it insist on shuffling the > data around? if there's only one small OS drive (40-80GB) and one > LARGE data pool in my backup server, would I be better off running > without a holding pool? would amanda still be smart enough to run > multiple DLEs at once?
Without a holding disk, amanda can only dump a single DLE at a time. So you lose the advantage of multiplexing dumps. The data format of dumps on the holding disk is different than the "taped" format. So amanda can't just "move" the data from holding to "tape". I try to keep the holding disk on a different spindle than the virtual tapes. -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
