On Mon April 14 2003 06:31, Dave Ewart wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I'd appreciate a little advice on this one - can't find anything
>pertinent in the FAQ or via the archives ...
>
>We started our Amanda backups in February with backups running
> every weekday evening.  I have a question about a possible
> 'problem'.  Since we started the backups, every single Monday to
> Friday has been a work day - we are approaching a 'holiday
> weekend': Friday 18.04.2003 and Monday 21.04.2003 are part of the
> Easter holiday weekend, here in the UK at least.  That means
> no-one will be here to load tapes on Friday or Monday.
>
>Is it possible to leave the backups to run at the their normal
> time and then flush to 'the tapes that would have been used'
> later?  I've done something similar when I ran a one-off archive
> backup when I knew that there would be no tape in the drive. 
> This was flushing to a single tape, however.  If backups have
> been stored in the holding disk for Friday's and Monday's
> backups, would amflush try to flush the contents to _one_ tape,
> or to two?
>
>I should add that there should be no problem with disk-space in
> the holding disk for the backups indicated above.
>
>Any comments/suggestions appreciated ...

When you run amflush and it finds more than one session in the 
holding disk, you can select which session it flushes.  If one 
session is a tape full, then just flush them in 2 runs of amflush 
starting tuesday morning.

>Thanks,
>
>Dave.

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