Hi!
...
They may be incomplete dumps. If there is a problem before a dump
completes you end up with a partial dump image in your holdingdisk
that never gets cleaned up. (To the developers: Since amflush seems
to know which ones are complete, can't it remove the incomplete ones?
Also, why does amflush mark a tape as used even when it doesn't write
any new data to it?)
Anyone know how to just delete the held backup jobs?
'rm' works for me. Just make sure they aren't complete (try a verify of the
dump image) or are older than your rotation before removing them.
...
This would be very interresting. I had the situation before that amflush
could
not flush anything to a tape, but it was marked as "used" anyway - very
irritiating,
and tape-consuming.
Furthermore it would be nice to have a "cancel" command to cleanly remove
dumps that cant be flushed - e.g. because they are bigger than a tape -
I used rm
and reconfigured amanda to make the "disks" smaller - but didnt know if
I mess up
the whole thing ...
Bye, Peter
WOTLmade
