deleting a night's directory on holding disk

2000-12-11 Thread peanut butter
Hi, am I pitching Amanda a curve ball by deleting one of the dated directories from the holding disk? One night's backups went to the holding disk. The next night's went to tape without flushing the previous night's. This second backup was identical in dump levels to the backups on disk.

Re: deleting a night's directory on holding disk

2000-12-11 Thread John R. Jackson
... I imagine Amanda will overlook this since they never made it to tape but thought I would check nonetheless. I think that's correct (for now). If you've redone the same backup level, the curinfo data has been replaced. The only thing that has any memory of the image is the log files, and

Re: deleting a night's directory on holding disk

2000-12-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:59:58PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: I was wrong. Amrecover (via amindexd) uses find_dump which scans the log files to find where dump images should be. So I'd definitely move that log file out of the way for a cycle. find_dump scans the log files to find dump on

Re: deleting a night's directory on holding disk

2000-12-11 Thread peanut butter
Thanks, everyone. I'll take what I believe to be the general consensus of writing all but the backup in question to tape yet setting this backup aside to be safe. Thanks for all the input. Paul -In response to your message- --received from David Lloyd-- You could just rm -rf them but