Re: Holding Disk Size

2008-12-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MOre tiem consuming ? As in it will take 5 minutes longer to setup ? Or as in the backups will last longer ? Set up and maintain, yes. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Holding Disk Size

2008-12-06 Thread Matt Burkhardt
I'm running out of holding disk space during the backup and I was wondering what I can do. Here's my scenario I've got a directory called Music that has 54GB on it. My disk has 36GB free. I have a second disk with 34GB free on it. Can I have multiple holding disks? If I give the disk list as

Re: Holding Disk Size

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Matt Burkhardt wrote: I'm running out of holding disk space during the backup and I was wondering what I can do. Here's my scenario I've got a directory called Music that has 54GB on it. My disk has 36GB free. I have a second disk with 34GB free on it. Can I have multiple holding disks?

Re: Holding Disk Size

2008-12-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a directory called Music that has 54GB on it. My disk has 36GB free. I have a second disk with 34GB free on it. Can I have multiple holding disks? Yes, you can, and that would be the easiest solution for you.

Re: Holding disk size question

2005-08-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In amanda.conf it says If a dump is too big to fit on the holding disk than it will be written directly to tape. I'm hoping to write 200g at a time to DLT, and would like to stream it if possible. Does that mean I need 200g of holding disk? I scrounged up

Holding disk size question

2005-08-27 Thread Marcus
In amanda.conf it says If a dump is too big to fit on the holding disk than it will be written directly to tape. I'm hoping to write 200g at a time to DLT, and would like to stream it if possible. Does that mean I need 200g of holding disk? I scrounged up 20g, but another 180g doesn't look

Re: Holding disk size question

2005-08-27 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Marcus wrote: In amanda.conf it says If a dump is too big to fit on the holding disk than it will be written directly to tape. I'm hoping to write 200g at a time to DLT, and would like to stream it if possible. Does that mean I need 200g of holding disk? Yep. I

Re: Holding disk size question

2005-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:49:11AM -0700, Marcus wrote: In amanda.conf it says If a dump is too big to fit on the holding disk than it will be written directly to tape. I'm hoping to write 200g at a time to DLT, and would like to stream it if possible. Does that mean I need 200g of

Re: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
LaValley, Brian E wrote: I have a Fedora Core 3 amanda server. I have specified an nfs mounted directory for one of the holding disks. Does anyone know why amcheck finds much less space available on this drive than a command like 'df' does? You need to explain a little more. amcheck checks

Re: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: LaValley, Brian E wrote: I have a Fedora Core 3 amanda server. I have specified an nfs mounted directory for one of the holding disks. Does anyone know why amcheck finds much less space available on this drive than a command like 'df' does? You need to explain a

RE: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread LaValley, Brian E
, Brian E Cc: Amanda (E-mail) Subject: Re: Holding disk size misread by amcheck Paul Bijnens wrote: LaValley, Brian E wrote: I have a Fedora Core 3 amanda server. I have specified an nfs mounted directory for one of the holding disks. Does anyone know why amcheck finds much less space available

Re: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
LaValley, Brian E wrote: Good point, my tape drive maximum sustained data transfer rate is 60 MBytes per second on a Gigabit ethernet network. Is that too slow? Maybe. Maybe not. Those modern drives sometimes (usually) slow down their motors when the bytes do not flow in fast enough, so that

Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-23 Thread LaValley, Brian E
I have a Fedora Core 3 amanda server. I have specified an nfs mounted directory for one of the holding disks. Does anyone know why amcheck finds much less space available on this drive than a command like 'df' does?