Is there any way to pause an amflush? Our backup system first dumps to a holding disk before it is flushed to tape. Usually a single dump will not cover either an LTO2 or LTO3 tape (two different backup profiles btw) unless there are a fair number of level 0 dumps involved.
One of these holding disks is via a Gb connection on an NFS server. The NFS server doesn't do a whole lot else so it doesn't cause too major of headaches although some direct attached storage would certainly work better. Anyways I accidentally pulled the plug on the NFS server the other day while I was doing some cable management and wasted the majority of an LTO2 tape (16GB of 200GB) before the server came back up. Amanda ran along happily for a while, not getting any data, but I assume polling the NFS share for the data it wanted until it timed out. So is there a way to pause an amflush? If not, where do I make a feature request? I realize it's not an entirely useful feature for every day use but it could be useful under certain circumstances. --- Dan Brown
