Re: Always fill every tape

2018-03-09 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Mar 9, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > With tape sizes what they are now I'm finally at the point where I have > way more tape than stuff to back up. To satisfy my inherent laziness, > I'd like to actually fill every tape (or at least come close to filling > them). And t

Re: Always fill every tape

2018-03-09 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "DSB" == Debra S Baddorf writes: DSB> Well, if it’s already not doing what you want, you might read DSB> these. Well, yeah, that's pretty much the same as I indicated that I'm using now, except that I'm using different thresholds. My problem is that I asked for at least 70% usage and it's

Re: Always fill every tape

2018-03-14 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
And so it turns out that if you turn off autoflush, Amanda will never flush existing dumps to tape regardless of the flush-threshold-* settings. Which I guess makes sense. And with "autoflush yes", it seems to simply flush everything currently on the holding disk regardless of other settings. So

Re: Always fill every tape

2018-03-14 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi Jason, * Jason L Tibbitts III [20180314 11:33]: > And so it turns out that if you turn off autoflush, Amanda will never > flush existing dumps to tape regardless of the flush-threshold-* > settings. Which I guess makes sense. And with "autoflush yes", it > seems to simply flush everything cu

Re: Always fill every tape

2018-03-14 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "JM" == Jean-Francois Malouin > writes: JM> This is not was I have experienced, at least with 3.3.x. For the record, my server is 3.5.1. JM> I've been using the following in some configs with the expected JM> result: OK, it's good to know that at some point it's worked for someone.