Re: [Amanda-users] tape spanning config not using holding disk?

2008-07-26 Thread Ian Turner
Mtrento, There are a few different issues here: 1. Setting tape_splitsize affects the way dumps are broken up when writing to tape, but does not affect they way they are stored on the holding disk. So dumps will still be done directly if they are larger than the holding disk, even if you have

[Amanda-users] tape spanning config not using holding disk?

2008-07-24 Thread Mtrento
hello everybody. im running amanda 2.6.0P1 and i try to backup a DLE bigger than my LTO4 tape. (850GB DLE on a 800 GB LTO4 TAPE) when the backup starts , the amdump log says that there's not enough holding disk space and it dump directly to tape. i'am surprised because i defined a tape_splitsiz