On Fri April 11 2003 11:29, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> writes:
>>>If you're still willing to bet your data on such a drive, you
>>> can configure Amanda to put all backups on the holding disk and
>>> then flush them to the tape. By flushing you won't get any
>>> writing time gaps and the backup will succeed.
>>
>>I have to ask, how does one go about doing this?
>
>The easiest solution is to allow Amanda to write level 0 dumps to
> the holding disk and don't put a tape in the drive. :-) That's
> what I did.

I was hopeing for a bit more exotic solution, like a ./configure 
option or an argument that could be passed to amdump 6 days, and a 
amflush done on the 7th, or something alone those lines.

That of course should work, but requires some intelligent human to 
do, as opposed to something that cron could do.  Like here where if 
it wasn't for amchecks nudging, I'd forget to change tapes at least 
once a week.  I've never been able to get cron to reach out to the 
drive and load 4 new tapes in it when they are due :)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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