On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: > 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
Really? That doesn't seem the way amanda handles things. There is a reserve parameter that specifies how much of the holding disk to reserve for incrementals. The default is 100%. That would force it to skip full dumps, defering to incrementals. So I would have expected full dumps to not be done. > 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. :-) I'm guessing you do not have an automatic tape changer. In that case you could still set runtapes to 2 (rather than default 1). The chg-manual type of changer can be specified. This setting will cause amanda to think it can use a second tape if necessary. But it will not be able to dump to it because a manual change is needed. The untaped data will be left on the holding disk. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
