Mon, 26 Jan 2015 kirjutas Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu>:
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?
I don't know, but there is an alternative approach you could use. If your tapes are big enough to hold several days worth of dumps, you could delay writing dumps to tape until enough of them have gathered on the holding disk to fill a tape. That is what I am doing here.
Relevant parameters in my amanda.conf: flush-threshold-dumped 100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 taperflush 100 autoflush yes -- Toomas Aas Tartu linnakantselei arvutivõrgu peaspetsialist tel 736 1274 mob 513 6493
