Auto-flush during amdump?

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Henein
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

Re: Auto-flush during amdump?

2002-06-18 Thread Ben Kochie
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:

Re: Auto-flush during amdump?

2002-06-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
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

Re: Auto-flush during amdump?

2002-06-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
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

Re: Auto-flush during amdump?

2002-06-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
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