I’ve not run into any problems. I do wait till the partial dump is several days old, to make sure amanda refuses to flush it. Any other readers care to comment?
Deb Baddorf > On Aug 4, 2016, at 1:06 AM, Chaerin Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, Debra. > Thank you for responding to my question. > > I have a more question. > If I remove partial dumps in holding disk by running "rm -rf treename", > aren't there any problem to running Amanda later? > I saw *.tmp files related the partial dumps in index directory when I tested > about this problem, > and I think it's possible to be created any other related files. > Don't I have to remove these tmp files? > > Regards, > Chaerin. > > > 2016-08-04 1:33 GMT+09:00 Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>: > > > On Aug 2, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Chaerin Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello. > > > > I have a question about cleaning up holding disk. > > For cleaning up holding disk, do I have to run amflush command? > > > > I don't want to waste a tape by flushing incomplete backup image remaining > > in holding disk. > > So, I searched on the internet and found this page in zmanda forum. > > (https://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?1565-Reset-Amanda-and-remove-holding-files) > > > > An Amanda hacker said, 'You can manually remove the data on the holding > > disk (rm -rf ) and run "amcleanup" after that.'. > > So, I tried it. > > But amcleanup returned following message and didn't do anything. > > "amcleanup: no unprocessed logfile to clean up.” > > If you have AUTOFLUSH set to ALL or YES (the latter flushes only the DLEs > listed on the dump command; so if you are > re-doing only SOME of your DLEs, then setting AUTOFLUSH to YES will only > put *those*same* DLEs onto the tape; > I prefer to set it to ALL) > then it should flush to tape those dumps which are still valid. > > Dumps which were partial, and will never be run onto the tape (ie you find > them there several days later, and amanda > has not flushed them) — Yeah, I just run “rm -fr treename” > Amcleanup doesn’t seem to be needed at this point, since amanda has already > rejected the dumps. > > I’m only told to use amcleanup when I control-C a backup, or do something > else weird (a machine crash in the middle > would probably look the same). So, if “AMCLEANUP <CONFIG>” ** gives no > replies, then you are fine. > > ** (I’m capitalizing some of the above commands to avoid spellcheck. > Don’t capitalize them yourself!) > > Deb Baddorf > Fermilab > > > I tried to executing amcleanup with every options, but the result was same. > > > > According to man page of amcleanup, amcleanup with '-r' option remove bad > > files in holding disk. > > What is the bad files? > > And what should I do to remove remaining data caused by failure backup in > > holding disk? > > Are there any recommended way about cleaning up holding disk in Amanda? > > > > Please answer my question. > > > > Regards, > > Chaerin. > > >
