amanda flush does not write data from holding disk to the tape

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi I use Amanda 2.4.5 with FreeBSD 4.10, a tapetype DAT72 and a holding disk. It works smoothly since several years. But since yesterday I've got some problem with the holding disk and amanda flush. We forget to flush the disk for several days. I tried several amanda flush (ALL, A, B

Re: amanda flush does not write data from holding disk to the tape

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Thomas Vogt wrote: I use Amanda 2.4.5 with FreeBSD 4.10, a tapetype DAT72 and a holding disk. It works smoothly since several years. But since yesterday I've got some problem with the holding disk and amanda flush. We forget to flush the disk for several days. I tried several amanda flush

Re: amanda flush

2001-12-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 at 10:29pm, Dan Swartzendruber wrote speaking of which, what have people found to be a good value for 'reserve'? my main motivation originally was that the original behavior (as you noted) was to never take any full dumps if the tape wasn't functional. to avoid

Re: amanda flush

2001-11-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 at 1:31pm, BRINER Cedric wrote the idea that I had is the following -run amdump without inserting the tape so the data will be stored in the holding disk -run amflsuh only if the amount of data on the holdingdisk is higher than what the tape can store

Re: amanda flush

2001-11-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:31:12PM +0100, BRINER Cedric wrote: hi, 1)the problem is that each time that I use amdump it use 1.1 tape so actually it use 2 tapes each time. Look for the new autoflush option of the tapeio branch. amdump will flush what is on the holding disk first. If you set

Re: amanda flush

2001-11-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:32 AM 11/30/01 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: If you do implement this, be sure to set the reserve parameter accordingly -- the default is 100%, meaning that 100% of the holding disk is reserved for incremental dumps in degraded modes, i.e. you won't get *any* full dumps. speaking of