Nevermind on #4. I found I can say 'amflush DBackup host1 host2 host3'. Thanks.
-Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zembower, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:54 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Advice on flushing a large dump Marc, thanks so much for your suggestions. This leads me to these further questions: 3). Is there any way to destroy what's on my holdingdisk now for the tobaccodev server, so that amanda will again try to backup at the level it tried before? I've now set the dumptype to use server compression for this host, so I may get a result that will fit on the tape. 4). Is there any way to tell amflush to flush more than one host? From last night, I now have all my hosts on the holding disk, but the large dump from tobaccodev won't allow any of them to be flushed to tape. I'd like to efficiently dump the ones other than tobaccodev to tape. Is there way to tell amflush to flush all the hosts EXCEPT tobaccodev? Thanks, again, for your suggestions and advice. -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marc Muehlfeld Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:41 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Advice on flushing a large dump Zembower, Kevin schrieb: > taper: tape DBackup11 kb 16766592 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device > driver: Taper error: "[writing file: No space left on device]" I used my calculator to add the filesizes of your holding disk: 18.363.547 Kb > My questions are > 1) Don't understand why I can't flush less than 20GB of data to my tapes > which are supposed to hold 20GB raw and more compressed. I have compression > turned off on the drive. I thought I was compressing the dumps, but I just > checked the disklist and amanda.conf and found I wasn't. How much is the "length" parameter of the tapetype you use? Have you created your own tapetype definition, by using amtapetype? This fills a tape up to the end with data to find out the parameter for your tape. > 2) Is there any way to compress the files now on the holdingdisk before > they're taped? If you configured compression in your dumptype section it allready is compressed. If not, I think amanda can't handle the restore, if you compress the holdingdisk data and flush it to tape. Regards Marc -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung IT) Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr. Klein und Dr. Rost Lochhamer Str. 29 - D-82152 Martinsried Telefon: +49(0)89/895578-0 - Fax: +49(0)89/895578-780 http://www.medizinische-genetik.de
