On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 08:17:32AM -0400, hymie! wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:26:39PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > On 2018-03-23 08:25, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > > > "Ryan, Lyle (US)" writes: > > > > > > > > > The server has an 11TB filesystem to store the backups in. I should > > > > > probably be fancier and split this up more, but not now. So I've > > > > > got my > > > > > holding, state, and vtapes directories all in there. > > > > > > > > In this scenario, I would think there's no point to a "holding" disk. > > > > > > 3. If something happens to the data storage device(s), the holding > > disk (HD) can continue to collect your backups. My HD is big > > enough to hold about 4 typical runs. Should the storage outage > > be protracted and HD space gets low, amanda switches to "degraded" > > mode and only does incrementals. > > Umm ... we aren't talking about the benefits of a holding disk. We're > specifically talking about the benefits of a holding disk **on the same > device** as the virtual tapes. > Having overlooked that, apologies.
Looking back at the three benefits mentioned, all would apply with holding disk on same device. jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
