On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:39:55AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > On 19/04 2002 16:18 Dave Sherohman wrote: > > You can do this manually by not changing tapes (or leaving the tape > > drive empty) tonight, which will cause all of tonight's dumps to stay > > on the holding disk (provided it's big enough), then put the new tape > > in and run amflush tomorrow morning to collect all of the untaped dumps.
> Yes, of course. Does this also mean that it's a good idea to use the > amount equivalent to one tape of the holding disk space? IMO, holding disk space is a matter of 'the more, the merrier'. You definitely want enough to handle at least one runs' worth of level 1 dumps, in case someone forgets to switch tapes or the taping never starts for some other reason. I like to go with at least twice that (disk is cheap, these days...) so that I can consolidate partial dumps if something goes wrong mid-run. > > Nope. Last night's untaped dumps will sit on the holding disk forever > > unless you either delete them or run amflush > Too bad. Yeah, it would be nice if you could set amanda up to automatically do an amflush onto the same tape after completing a normal run if the tape isn't full yet. > I'm assuming there is no way to continue writing to the tape were > something was amflushed, either, but please let me know if I'm wrong. You are correct. Amanda will not append to tapes under any circumstances. It always starts writing from the beginning of the tape.
