On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:10:57PM -0500, Lee, Raymond enlightened us: > Will there be a conflict if I run amflush while an amdump is running? > > I'll be running amdump like this so that I can accumulate enough > multiple dumps in my holding disk before I amflush it to tape: > > amdump DailySet1 -o tapedev=/dev/null -o tpchanger="" > (thanks to Jean-Louis for the taper options patch) > > > Then I'll have a cron job that periodically checks the amount of space > used in the holding disk. If the size is close to the capacity of one > of my tapes, then amflush will run. > > So my question is, if amflush runs while amdump is running, will it try > to flush the dump that amdump is currently working on and cause any > problems? >
It won't run, it will complain there is another process already running. What I would do is set autoflush=yes in amanda.conf, then instead of running a separate cron job just write a wrapper around your amdump job. If the data is less than your required level, call it with your -o options, if it is above, call as usual and it will flush everything (including that run) to tape. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
