Backup Central

Is there a way to get a backup to remain in the holding disk? In the
morning when I get in to work, I review the backup jobs from the night
prior, and occasionally there is an error in one of the jobs. I'd like
to run the job manually and dump to the holding disk and leave it there,
so when the full backup job runs at night it will flush it to disk with
the other backups.

If I let it run to tape, it wastes a whole tape in the schedule - just
to do one DLE...it makes more sense to just put the job on the holding
disk to save on tape rotation.

I don't see an option for this. Anyone have any suggestions?

"4" == 440 <dr440 < at > ihavefire.com> writes:

4> Is there a way to get a backup to remain in the holding disk?

I agree this would be nice. I'd go even further and wish that I could
keep several nights' backups on the holding disk, even to the point of
keeping it somewhat full and removing old backups when space is needed.
I have many TB of holding disk, and when tapes rotate offsite we're
always faced with the question of what happens when we need to restore
from an offsite tape. Doing mirrored tape isn't in the budget,
unfortunately. Plus, even with a library and fast tape drive it's still
faster to pull things from disk.

- J<

Disable the tapedev and tpchanger:
amdump CONF -otapedev= -otpchanger=

Jean-Louis

Dr 440 wrote:
Is there a way to get a backup to remain in the holding disk? In the
morning when I get in to work, I review the backup jobs from the night
prior, and occasionally there is an error in one of the jobs. I'd like
to run the job manually and dump to the holding disk and leave it there,
so when the full backup job runs at night it will flush it to disk with
the other backups.

If I let it run to tape, it wastes a whole tape in the schedule - just
to do one DLE...it makes more sense to just put the job on the holding
disk to save on tape rotation.

I don't see an option for this. Anyone have any suggestions?

Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Disable the tapedev and tpchanger:
amdump CONF -otapedev= -otpchanger=

Jean-Louis

Dr 440 wrote:
Is there a way to get a backup to remain in the holding disk? In the
morning when I get in to work, I review the backup jobs from the night
prior, and occasionally there is an error in one of the jobs. I'd like
to run the job manually and dump to the holding disk and leave it there,
so when the full backup job runs at night it will flush it to disk with
the other backups.

If I let it run to tape, it wastes a whole tape in the schedule - just
to do one DLE...it makes more sense to just put the job on the holding
disk to save on tape rotation.

I don't see an option for this. Anyone have any suggestions?

Also, see

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdump_Only_Creates_Incremental_Dumps_in_Holding_Disk

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Delay_writing_to_tape_for_better_tape_utilization

and see thread on the list today titled "Re: 2 config, noinc and nofull"
with my reply to the list at 11:46am.

lots of options.


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