Auto-flush during amdump?
Greetings Amanda types. I've been using amanda for a few years now, so I'm pretty sure this can't be done. I thought I'd ask anyway, perhaps it will stimulate discussion of this as a potential new feature. I'm interested in having amanda flush any backups that are in the holding area as a part of the nightly amdump run. Our server is co-located with our ISP. While they are pretty good at changing our tapes, they do occasionally mess up, and we often don't catch them before the backup runs. What happens is that our backups wind up in the holding area, as you'd expect. The problem is that it's a multi-step headache to call the ISP, explain the problem, get the correct tape loaded, hang up; an amflush is then performed; then we have to call the ISP again, and get them to put the next night's tape in. Now, when you run amflush at the command line, it offers to put all the held backups onto one tape for you. What would really make life easier for us is if amdump essentially could be instructed to do the same thing... Take all the backups from the holding area, and put them on the tape with the results of the current amdump run. Can anyone think of a way to do this with the current Amanda? Would this be a popular addition if it appeared in a new version? Could this be put on a feature-request list? Colin
Re: Auto-flush during amdump?
that's an interesting idea.. maybe it would be better to make it part of the planner.. planner sees dumps in the holding disk, adds that count to the plan for the current day, and will flush it along with the current disks. this would save a lot of time for me as well. just add to amanda.conf: autoflush true -ben On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Colin Henein wrote: Greetings Amanda types. I've been using amanda for a few years now, so I'm pretty sure this can't be done. I thought I'd ask anyway, perhaps it will stimulate discussion of this as a potential new feature. I'm interested in having amanda flush any backups that are in the holding area as a part of the nightly amdump run. Our server is co-located with our ISP. While they are pretty good at changing our tapes, they do occasionally mess up, and we often don't catch them before the backup runs. What happens is that our backups wind up in the holding area, as you'd expect. The problem is that it's a multi-step headache to call the ISP, explain the problem, get the correct tape loaded, hang up; an amflush is then performed; then we have to call the ISP again, and get them to put the next night's tape in. Now, when you run amflush at the command line, it offers to put all the held backups onto one tape for you. What would really make life easier for us is if amdump essentially could be instructed to do the same thing... Take all the backups from the holding area, and put them on the tape with the results of the current amdump run. Can anyone think of a way to do this with the current Amanda? Would this be a popular addition if it appeared in a new version? Could this be put on a feature-request list? Colin
Re: Auto-flush during amdump?
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 at 3:37pm, Colin Henein wrote I've been using amanda for a few years now, so I'm pretty sure this can't be done. I thought I'd ask anyway, perhaps it will stimulate discussion of this as a potential new feature. I'm interested in having amanda flush any backups that are in the holding area as a part of the nightly amdump run. [jlb@chaos tmp2]$ more amanda-2.4.3b3/example/amanda.conf.in . . # reserve 30 # percent # This means save at least 30% of the holding disk space for degraded # mode backups. autoflush no # # if autoflush is set to yes, then amdump will schedule all dump on # holding disks to be flush to tape during the run. :) -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Auto-flush during amdump?
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:37:52PM -0400, Colin Henein wrote: Greetings Amanda types. I've been using amanda for a few years now, so I'm pretty sure this can't be done. I thought I'd ask anyway, perhaps it will stimulate discussion of this as a potential new feature. I'm interested in having amanda flush any backups that are in the holding area as a part of the nightly amdump run. That feature is already in 2.4.3b3. Jean-Louis Our server is co-located with our ISP. While they are pretty good at changing our tapes, they do occasionally mess up, and we often don't catch them before the backup runs. What happens is that our backups wind up in the holding area, as you'd expect. The problem is that it's a multi-step headache to call the ISP, explain the problem, get the correct tape loaded, hang up; an amflush is then performed; then we have to call the ISP again, and get them to put the next night's tape in. Now, when you run amflush at the command line, it offers to put all the held backups onto one tape for you. What would really make life easier for us is if amdump essentially could be instructed to do the same thing... Take all the backups from the holding area, and put them on the tape with the results of the current amdump run. Can anyone think of a way to do this with the current Amanda? Would this be a popular addition if it appeared in a new version? Could this be put on a feature-request list? Colin -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834
Re: Auto-flush during amdump?
As others have pointed out, it is a new, existing feature. One thing though. you will probably want to make sure there is a sufficient tape capacity, possilby allowing multiple tapes, for both flush and normal dump. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
