backup/amflush oddity

2006-09-27 Thread Jeff Portwine
Hi everybody, Hoping somebody can clarify something about amanda for me. I have my backups set to run on a 3 day dump cycle with 6 tapes, running every evening except sunday night. It seems to work fine, we change the tape each morning so over the course of a week (if I understand how

Re: backup/amflush oddity

2006-09-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 at 9:06am, Jeff Portwine wrote However, I've noticed that every time Amanda doesn't find a writeable tape (usually due to the tape not being changed that day) there is very little data written to the holding disk and the amflush is very very small. The day after this, the

Re: backup/amflush oddity

2006-09-27 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:06:32AM -0400, Jeff Portwine enlightened us: Hoping somebody can clarify something about amanda for me. I have my backups set to run on a 3 day dump cycle with 6 tapes, running every evening except sunday night. It seems to work fine, we change the tape each

Re: backup/amflush oddity

2006-09-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:06, Jeff Portwine wrote: Hi everybody, Hoping somebody can clarify something about amanda for me. I have my backups set to run on a 3 day dump cycle with 6 tapes, running every evening except sunday night.It seems to work fine, we change the tape each

Re: backup/amflush oddity

2006-09-27 Thread Jeff Portwine
Thank you for the pointer, I think that may be what I needed... will see how the backups go the rest of this week. -Jeff Read up on the 'reserve' parameter in amanda.conf, its default value, and its effects on degraded mode dumps.

Re: backup/amflush oddity

2006-09-27 Thread Jeff Portwine
this will fix it.Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction. -Jeff - Original Message - From: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amanda-users@amanda.org Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:11 AM Subject: Re: backup/amflush oddity On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:06