On a couple of occasions recently, when I added a new machine into the rotation, some incrementals didn't get done because I didn't have enough tape space. However, amanda doesn't even do these dumps and leave them in the holding disk. Is there any way of forcing that behaviour i.e. for some reason some night there isn't quite enough tape, do the backups anyway to the holding disk. I can then flush those if I so desire but probably I'd just leave them there as insurance against a failure of the disk concerned before the next tape backup (yes, I know I've a problem there in the event of a simultaneous failure of one of the not taped disks and the holding disk)
One way that springs to mind is to lie about the tape capacity but it occurs to me that then amanda will feel free to use that much each night if it needs to. I'd rather that it knew of the capacity of my tape, but backed up as much as was necessary, leaving the surplus on the holding disk. I've a horrible suspicion that I'm asking for a glass of dry sweet wine here but perhaps someone can make sense of my requirements / desires. :-) Kindest regards, Niall O Broin
