don't want files to be divided up on holding disk

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I recently upgraded form Amanda 2.4.4 to 2.6.0. I used to have chunksize commented out altogether for my holding disks to avoid having things divided up. Since the upgrade, it is defaulting to a cnunksize of 1G. Do I simply set it to 0 to not use multiple files? Thanks, Paul

Re: don't want files to be divided up on holding disk

2008-07-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded form Amanda 2.4.4 to 2.6.0. I used to have chunksize commented out altogether for my holding disks to avoid having things divided up. Since the upgrade, it is defaulting to a cnunksize of 1G. Do I

Re: don't want files to be divided up on holding disk

2008-07-02 Thread Ian Turner
The default is 1 GB, but specifying 0 will just compute a size based on INT_MAX. I don't think there is any way to specify unlimited chunksize, but you could specify whatever your filesystem limit actually is. (2 TiB for ext2 with 4KiB blocks) Just out of curiosity, why do you care? On

Re: don't want files to be divided up on holding disk

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Yeatman
Okay, I guess I'll just set a large chunksize, then. Thanks! To answer Ian's question, I am simply accustomed to the default being not to divide backup files up. Before now, I always thought of chunksize as only being used if needed and, when not needed and thus not set, essentially disabled