On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:28:34PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
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> Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >On 2009-06-30 19:52, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> >>So, the question is, if Amanda has more than one holding disk
> >>(partition), and they differ in size, will Amanda know when the
> >>smaller one is inad
Paul Bijnens wrote:
On 2009-06-30 19:52, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
So, the question is, if Amanda has more than one holding disk
(partition), and they differ in size, will Amanda know when the
smaller one is inadequate for a particular DLE and explicitly choose
the larger one? Also, if I have s
On 2009-06-30 19:52, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
So, the question is, if Amanda has more than one holding disk
(partition), and they differ in size, will Amanda know when the smaller
one is inadequate for a particular DLE and explicitly choose the larger
one? Also, if I have specified spindle numb
> -Original Message-
> From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org
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> On Behalf Of Chris Hoogendyk
> Sent: June 30, 2009 13:52
> To: AMANDA users
> Subject: Amanda's planning for use of holding disk space
>
> So, after 3 yea
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:05:54PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
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> Chris,
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> Amanda uses "chunksize" to break a DLE in the holding area down
> into managable pieces (you can set the chunksize per holding area).
>
> You do not need single spindle holding areas that are large enough
> to contain
Why not use software raid or LVM to concatenate the drives together into
a larger volume? I've been in the same situation in the past and this
worked well.
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> So, after 3 years of pressure and inadequate backups, my one department
> that never has enough money to do anything
Chris,
Amanda uses "chunksize" to break a DLE in the holding area down
into managable pieces (you can set the chunksize per holding area).
You do not need single spindle holding areas that are large enough
to contain whole DLEs (anymore, at one time this was true).
You do still want a large eno
So, after 3 years of pressure and inadequate backups, my one department
that never has enough money to do anything has finally bought a tape
library. I'm setting it up on the existing server, because they can't
afford the other components to set up an Amanda backup server (even
though I have a
