Re: Best size for vtapes

2019-11-18 Thread Olivier
Jon LaBadie writes: > Do you really expect all (or most) of your vtapes to be 100% full? If so, > I do not think you have allocated enough total space. > > Amanda has one provision for dealing with such situations, the holding > disk. Mine is dedicated, and about the size of four vtapes. > > An

Re: Best size for vtapes

2019-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 02:48:40PM +0700, Olivier wrote: > Charles Curley writes: > > > So in theory you could allocate more vtape space that there is room on > > the partition. Just make sure you never use more vtape space than you > > actually have. > > In theory. But you are accepting the ris

Re: Best size for vtapes

2019-11-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 November 2019 02:11:07 Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:13:00 +0700 > > Olivier wrote: > > I am wondering what is the best size to declare for the lenght of > > the vtapes. Too long a vtape could lead to disk space being unused, > > You may have a misconception here. Vt

Re: Best size for vtapes

2019-11-17 Thread Olivier
Charles Curley writes: > So in theory you could allocate more vtape space that there is room on > the partition. Just make sure you never use more vtape space than you > actually have. In theory. But you are accepting the risk that from time to time all your vtapes will be 100% full and you will

Re: Best size for vtapes

2019-11-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:13:00 +0700 Olivier wrote: > I am wondering what is the best size to declare for the lenght of the > vtapes. Too long a vtape could lead to disk space being unused, You may have a misconception here. Vtapes emulate physical tapes, but not in all respects. If you don't fill

Best size for vtapes

2019-11-17 Thread Olivier
Hello, I apologize in advance if the question has already been answered or has become obsolete. I am wondering what is the best size to declare for the lenght of the vtapes. Too long a vtape could lead to disk space being unused, but having too many small vtapes one or two directories created for