In fact the suggestion from Jean-Louis to use the -o option before the config
amflush -otaperflush=0 daily
did work. I had ran several test and was looking at an older Amanda email
report by mistake.
Sorry for the wrong information.
Thanks
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McGraw, Robert P
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:49 AM
> To: 'Jean-Louis Martineau'
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: -o taperflush question
>
> Jean-Louis,
>
> Tried
>
> amflush daily -otaperflush=0
>
> [32][amandaba...@hertz]:~/daily% amflush -otaperflush=0 daily
>
> Today is: 20100714
> Flushing dumps from 20100713231043 to tape drive "c4".
> Expecting a new tape. (The last dumps were to tape D01013)
> Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? y
> Running in background, you can log off now.
> You'll get mail when amflush is finished.
>
> And did not get in error messages but the amanda email report said
>
> *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
>
> There are 276277M of dumps left in the holding disk.
> They will be flushed on the next run.
>
> So somehow the -o option is not overriding the amanda.conf file.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:04 AM
> > To: McGraw, Robert P
> > Cc: '[email protected]'
> > Subject: Re: -o taperflush question
> >
> >
> > try: amflush -otaperflush=0 daily
> >
> > solaris require that all dash argument are before the config name.
> > except for amdump which is a shell script.
> >
> > Jean-Louis
> >
> > McGraw, Robert P wrote:
> > > I am trying to run something like
> > >
> > > amflush daily -otaperflush=0
> > >
> > > but I get "Argument '-otaperflush=0' matches neither a host nor a
> > disk."
> > >
> > > I have read the amanda CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE and have tried other
> > variations of the -o but still no luck.
> > >
> > > Can someone give me the correct syntax for the -o in the amflush
> > command above.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
> > >
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