On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:51:43PM -0500, David Barcelo enlightened us: > Is there a way to force a backup to the holding disk? I want to keep > several days worth of incrementals on disk and then flush them to disk > on Friday. >
I do the same thing by just leaving the tape out of the drive. The other option is to configure amanda to use for example, /dev/amtape as its no rewind device. Run a cron job that points /dev/amtape to /dev/nst0 (or whatever is appropriate) on friday, then after the dumps, points it to some non-existent device (NOT /dev/null!!!), so that it will leave the dumps on disk. You may get some complaints in the e-mails from amanda about not being able to access the tape device, but it gets the job done. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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