First of all, thanks for your help Jon. 

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> Hi, the body of you message refers to dumping and flushing.
> Why a subject about amrecover???

Oops..this was before my first cup of coffee this morning. ;-) Indeed, the 
title of my mail should be "Problems with amflush"!. Sorry about that.

> Here is why I guessed "nothing to dump".  This suggests that
> during your dump, 100% (the default) of the holding disk was 
> reserved for degraded mode dumps.  Everything had to go direct
> to tape.  As there was no tape and no holding disk, there would
> not have been any dumps available for amflush.
> 
> If my guess is correct,
> rethink the setting of your "reserve" parameter.


Indeed, this enabled me to flush those degraded dumps to tape. I had this 
line commented out in my original configuration file. 

Thanks so much for the speedy and accurate response!

Best regards,
Jason Pickering


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