> R> Ok. Can I create one more directory under /backup, set permissions, move > R> all dumps from /backup into the new directory and run amflush again? Will > R> that be okay? > > Yes, this should work.
I did this, created another directory under /backup called "amanda_hold" and inside it one more directory called "DailySet1". I moved all amanda stuff from /backup to /backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1 directory. I then changed directory permissions [for the new directories which I have created and also windows directory] to amanda.disk. But still amflush does not work. Here is the output of amflush -f $ /usr/sbin/amflush -f DailySet1 Scanning /backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1... 20031230: found Amanda directory. 20040130: found Amanda directory. 20040131: found Amanda directory. 20040201: found Amanda directory. 20040203: found Amanda directory. 20040205: found Amanda directory. Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter: A. 20031230 B. 20040130 C. 20040131 D. 20040201 E. 20040203 F. 20040205 Select directories to flush [A..F]: [ALL] BCDEF Today is: 20040205 Flushing dumps in 20040130, 20040131, 20040201, 20040203, 20040205 to tape drive "/dev/nst0". Expecting tape Set-1-10 or a new tape. (The last dumps were to tape Set-1-09) Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? y amflush: datestamp 20040205 driver: pid 26065 executable driver version 2.4.3 driver: send-cmd time 0.208 to taper: START-TAPER 20040205 driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1 size 572400 reserving 572400 out of 572400 for degraded-mode dumps taper: pid 26067 executable taper version 2.4.3 taper: page size is 4096 taper: buffer size is 32768 taper: buffer[00] at 0x400d5000 taper: buffer[01] at 0x400dd000 taper: buffer[02] at 0x400e5000 taper: buffer[03] at 0x400ed000 taper: buffer[04] at 0x400f5000 taper: buffer[05] at 0x400fd000 taper: buffer[06] at 0x40105000 taper: buffer[07] at 0x4010d000 taper: buffer[08] at 0x40115000 taper: buffer[09] at 0x4011d000 taper: buffer[10] at 0x40125000 taper: buffer[11] at 0x4012d000 taper: buffer[12] at 0x40135000 taper: buffer[13] at 0x4013d000 taper: buffer[14] at 0x40145000 taper: buffer[15] at 0x4014d000 taper: buffer[16] at 0x40155000 taper: buffer[17] at 0x4015d000 taper: buffer[18] at 0x40165000 taper: buffer[19] at 0x4016d000 taper: buffer structures at 0x40175000 for 240 bytes taper: read label `Set-1-09' date `20040205' Since I ran amflush so many times now, I put the same tape which ran with amflush about an hour ago. How do I force amanda to use the tape which I put in the drive? I know nothing was written to the tape, but amanda still thinks that it wrote something to the tape and it asks for the new tape when I run amflush again.