Holding disk and dump splitting questions

2010-08-16 Thread Valeriu Mutu
Hi Amanda developers, I would like to get a better understanding of how Amanda's holding disk and dump splitting features work. According to the documentation, to speed up backups, one could could setup holding disks where the data will be buffered before it is written to tape. This method is

Re: Holding disk and dump splitting questions

2010-08-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Valeriu Mutu vm...@pcbi.upenn.edu wrote: According to the documentation, to speed up backups, one could could setup holding disks where the data will be buffered before it is written to tape. This method is known as FILE-WRITE [1]. This sounds good and works