peanut butter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> am I pitching Amanda a curve ball by deleting one of the dated
> directories from the holding disk?
Might be. For some versions of AMANDA (at least for 2.4.1p1) the backups
on the holding disk are not "trusted" until they get to tape. This might
account for repeated equal levels (although this is also dependent on
options in amanda.conf). Newer versions might have fixed this.
> One night's backups went to
> the holding disk. The next night's went to tape
> without flushing the previous night's. This second backup was identical in
> dump levels to the backups on disk.
Well, as I said, this might also be because you set bumpdays to a number
greater than 1 in amanda.conf.
> I've since ran more backups
> to the holding disk ( still without ever flushing the first
> backups from holding disk to tape ).
So what? Does this mean you don't need them?
> Now it seems best just to 'rm -rf' the
> first backups mentioned from the holding disk and flush the remaining ones to
> tape.
Don't forget, the "best" is the enemy of the "good". Even without any
"goods", 'rm -rf' was never "best" ;-)
I don't see why you would want to remove the backups on your holding
disk, no matter what level they are (remember, level 1 is not equal to
level 1, even with one second of time delay on the same filesystem).
> I imagine Amanda will overlook this since they never made
> it to tape but thought I would check nonetheless.
Again, this might depend on the version. Who trusts who here? ;-)
(But trust me on the backups)
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