On Friday 20 October 2006 15:25, Lee, Raymond wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:14:20AM -0500, Lee, Raymond wrote: >> > I know Amanda wasn't designed to write to a tape until it's >> >> full, but I >> >> > need to do that for now since I don't have enough tapes to keep the >> > number of days of backups that I want. So as the FAQ suggested, I'd >> > like to keep all the dumps on the holding disk and just run amflush >> > whenever the holding disk gets enough data to fill one tape. >> > >> > I'm running 2.5.1p1 with the following in amanda.conf: >> > >> > autoflush off >> >> ... >> >> > However, when I run an amdump that only backs up a 200MB of >> >> data, I can >> >> > see the dumps being written to /dump/amanda, but then it's >> >> be flushed to >> >> > tape automatically at the end of amdump. I also tried >> >> "autoflush no" >> >> > and commenting the line out (default should be "off", >> >> right?), but it >> >> > always flushes to tape after a dump. Any ideas? >> >> You've misunderstood the autoflush directive. >> It is not clearly described in the manpage.
Agreed, it sure isn't. When I last had a question about it, I read the src's as best I could and came to the conclusion that it has no argument, the meer presence of the keyword being the search criteria to enable it. That was however, about a year or a bit more back up the log, and may have been addressed with real yes or no settings by now. >> Writing to tape during an amdump is considered the norm. >> There is no directive controlling taping or not taping >> during a dump, that is not considered "flushing". >> >> The autoflush directive only affects whether the holding >> disk is looked at for OLD, previously untaped, dumps. >> They are then added or not to the list of things to >> tape this run of amdump. >> >> To collect on the holding disk, don't insert at tape. > >Thanks for the clarification, John. It makes sense now. Maybe a better >description should be included in future releases? > >Thanks, >Ray > > >This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential > or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is > strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this > communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply > e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
