My amanda server has a really large holding disk, because disk is cheap and because lots of disk striping generally equals better write performance.
The usual restore operation I have to do is pulling things off of last night's backup, which involves waiting for the library to load things and such, and of course hoping that there's no problem with the tapes. But there's a good chance that the backup image I need was just on the holding disk, and if it hadn't been deleted then there would be no reason to touch the tapes at all. In fact, even with LTO6 tapes, I should still be able to fit several tapes worth of backups on the holding disk. Is there any way to force amanda to delay deleting dumps until it actually needs space on the holding disk? Or, is there any particular place I might start looking in order to hack this in somehow? - J<
