Another thing I don't quite understand, is what's the best thing to do when I get
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. Well, obviously, the simple answer is "run amflush", which is what I did the last time I got this. The problem with this was that the flush required a tape of its own, which was not what I wanted; what I really had in mind was to write the dumps along with next day's backups. So what should I have done? Perhaps Amanda would have handled this automatically if I had left the holding disk alone? (I'm sorry, but it's quite hard to test this now, for obvious reasons, and I can find very little information on tape errors in the documentation.) - Toralf
