Re: Advice on flushing a large dump

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Zembower, Kevin wrote: 3). Is there any way to destroy what's on my holdingdisk now for the tobaccodev server, so that amanda will again try to backup at the level it tried before? I've now set the dumptype to use server compression

Re: [Amanda-users] Scheduling backups

2008-12-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:17:49PM -0500, shantanu uab wrote: > > In summary: > > - Crontab will invoke amdump > - Amanda knows min. frequency of full backups needed and how many times > amdump will be run from amanda.conf file > - The clients/files to be backed up are specified in disklist (co

Re: [Amanda-users] Scheduling backups

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
shantanu uab wrote: In summary: - Crontab will invoke amdump - Amanda knows min. frequency of full backups needed and how many times amdump will be run from amanda.conf file - The clients/files to be backed up are specified in disklist (could be more than one) - Amanda ensures min. freq. of f

[Amanda-users] Scheduling backups

2008-12-17 Thread shantanu uab
In summary: - Crontab will invoke amdump - Amanda knows min. frequency of full backups needed and how many times amdump will be run from amanda.conf file - The clients/files to be backed up are specified in disklist (could be more than one) - Amanda ensures min. freq. of full backup is respect

Re: Advice on flushing a large dump

2008-12-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Zembower, Kevin wrote: > 3). Is there any way to destroy what's on my holdingdisk now for the > tobaccodev server, so that amanda will again try to backup at the level it > tried before? I've now set the dumptype to use server compression for this > host, so I m

RE: Advice on flushing a large dump

2008-12-17 Thread Zembower, Kevin
Nevermind on #4. I found I can say 'amflush DBackup host1 host2 host3'. Thanks. -Kevin -Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Zembower, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:54 AM To: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subje

RE: Advice on flushing a large dump

2008-12-17 Thread Zembower, Kevin
Marc, thanks so much for your suggestions. This leads me to these further questions: 3). Is there any way to destroy what's on my holdingdisk now for the tobaccodev server, so that amanda will again try to backup at the level it tried before? I've now set the dumptype to use server compression

Re: Advice on flushing a large dump

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Zembower, Kevin schrieb: taper: tape DBackup11 kb 16766592 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device driver: Taper error: "[writing file: No space left on device]" I used my calculator to add the filesizes of your holding disk: 18.363.547 Kb My questions are 1) Don't understand why I