On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:08:58 am Jon LaBadie did opine:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:39:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday, November 01, 2010 10:28:24 pm Jon LaBadie did opine:
> > > I've started backing up my amanda files nightly
> > > in a separate amdump run after my primary amdump.
> > > My plan was to leave it on the holding disk and
> > > let it autoflush to vtape during the next day's
> > > dump. Unfortunately it does not flush. I've
> > > now got about 7 dumps on the holding disk.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions why an "autoflush yes" might
> > > not be effective?
> > >
> > > Jon
> >
> > I just checked my latest man page for amanda.conf that goes with
> > 3.2.0, and its not there. I presume it has been deprecated. NDI when
> > Jon.
>
> I'm running 3.2.0 also. Both my manpage and that on the wiki have
> autoflush.
>
> New glasses? :)
>
I don't think so Jon. My man pages get updated with every build
& install, so they should be current. Yes, this files date is2010-10-29 14:16
so it was installed when I last built 3.20 with my scripts.
>From that file - /usr/local/share/man/man5/amanda.conf:
taperflush int
Default: 0. At the end of a run, Amanda will start a new tape to
flush remaining data if there is more data on the holding
disk at the end of a run than this setting allows; the amount is
specified as a percentage of the capacity of a single
volume. In other words, at the end of a run, Amanda will begin a new
tape if the inequality h > t × f is satisfied, where
h is the amount of data remaining on the holding disk from this or
previous runs, t is the capacity of a volume, and f is
this parameter, expressed as a percentage. This parameter may be
greater than 100%.
The value of this parameter may not exceed that of the
flush-threshold-scheduled parameter.; autoflush must be set to
´yes´ if taperflush is greater than 0.
And that is the only place in the whole manpage it is mentioned.
>From the way I'd read that it seems to have been replaced by taperflush
which in turn has some fawncy math to trigger it. This time of the night,
I can't grok what it really means as I took my bedtime pills 30 minutes ago.
Maybe you can decipher it and explain it to me? ;)
> Jon
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