Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/25/2015 10:27 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: My amanda server has a really large holding disk, because disk is cheap and because lots of disk striping generally equals better write performance. The usual restore operation I have to do is pulling things off of last night's backup, which

Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-26 Thread Debra S Baddorf
I wonder if one could somehow use the AMVAULT command to do this? It serves to make a COPY of a dump tape (as I understand it). At the very least, you could have a cron job copy the tape back *off* of the tape, onto a spare corner of the holding disk that you had labeled as

Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-26 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
JM == Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com writes: JM The main problem is that if you leave the dump in the holding disk, JM amanda will automatically re-flush (autoflush) them on the next run. JM There is no way to store the information about dump that are already JM flushed and dump that

Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-25 Thread Toomas Aas
Mon, 26 Jan 2015 kirjutas Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu: The usual restore operation I have to do is pulling things off of last night's backup, which involves waiting for the library to load things and such, and of course hoping that there's no problem with the tapes. But there's a