Greetings all; Speed related question: I've had a second holding disk setup on sdb here for long enough to forget I had done it. Oldtimers setting in?
It was whatever was available as free space on an old wheezy install on /dev/sdb and was a direct mount off of / in my fstab. Spotting it and not recalling what it was for, I cleaned it out, and unmounted it. Then of course amanda was forced to use the old holding disk for everything and complained in the log, which I didn't read very carefully for a couple days. So tonight, I defined a new holding disk as /sdb/dumps, and remounted the UUID as /sdb and made the whole path owned by amanda:backup. amcheck is again happy, and since a df now shows that now empty disk as haveing 896702760 1k blocks free, it ought to have all the room it needs, and I'm reasoning the original /usr/dumps holding disk can be commented out. However, since I'm also backing up 4 other machines whose "spindles" are out on the net and can and do run in-parallel, is the removal of the old default a good idea? That would, depending on the scheduling, have 5 dumpers writing to the same spindle again. Many Thanks for any insight folks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
