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Re: what if I forget to "amflush"?

2004-03-15 12:43:47
Subject: Re: what if I forget to "amflush"?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Martin Grill <m.grill AT lancaster.ac DOT uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:41:41 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 at 5:30pm, Martin Grill wrote

> I am slightly worried about this whole "flushing" thing.
> What if amdump fails (i.e. leaves some data on the holding disk), and I then 
> forget to run amflush before cron launches another amdump job?
> 
If you have 'autoflush yes' in your amanda.conf, stuff on disk will be 
flushed for you, automagically.  If you don't, it will stay on disk for 
you to amflush later.  Either way, it's not a problem.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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