--On Monday, March 15, 2004 17:30:52 +0000 Martin Grill <m.grill AT 
lancaster.ac DOT uk> 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?

The next backup proceeds normally (although you would have less
holdingdisk space) and you can run amflush afterwards.
  On the newer versions of Amanda you can set "autoflush yes" in your
config and it will be done automatically.  You may want to increase
runtapes if you do this (runtapes is just the maximum number of tapes
to use per run, it will only use as many as are actually needed).

Frank

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