On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:59:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2004 23:20, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:04:33PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: > >> According to the docs, with amflush you can select "all" to flush > >> all dumps waiting in the holding area. Does it prompt you for a > >> new tape after each dump or will it try to put it all the dumps > >> on one tape? > > > >Fits as much on a tape as possible, not necessarily > >all the DLE's from one dump consecutively (sp?). > > > >If runtapes parameter == 1, it will leave any DLE's > >that did not fit for the another flush. If runtapes > 1 > >it will use more than one tape as necessary. > > The last time that situation came up here Jon, having runtapes > 1 > didn't help. Due to the lack of a working ioctl for rewind in amanda > or chg-scsi, it failed. But thats nothing new. Apparently I have > the only system in the world that from amanda-2.4.1 and RH6.2 through > FC2 and whatever the last amanda-2.4.4/5b/px is, and 3 mobo/cpu > replacements for where the drive lived, still cannot rewind a tape > with anything but mt. Am I nuts? Rhetorical, please don't anwser > that! >
Works here regularly. Recently I was so negligent I ran my abundant holding disks out of space by never replacing worn out tapes. Amanda stopped working, no place to put the data. When I finally labeled some new tapes and did an amflush, it took all 4 tapes it could and still left a lot in the holding disks. Next night it autoflushed during the regular amdump and took 2 tapes. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
