Here is my amflush command :
Scanning /amanda/daily...
 20040823: found Amanda directory.
 20040910: found Amanda directory.
 20041012: found Amanda directory.

Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter:
 A. 20040823
 B. 20040910
 C. 20041012
Select directories to flush [A..C]: [ALL]


As you can see I saw the dump I can flush, The prob occure with each dump

Frederic Medery
System Administrator

LexUM, University of Montreal



Frank Smith wrote:

--On Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:10:47 -0400 Frederic Medery <dist-list AT 
LEXUM.UMontreal DOT CA> wrote:

Hello,
every time I do a amflush i received this report :

The dumps were flushed to tape daily-05.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily-02.


STATISTICS:
                         Total       Full      Daily
                       --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:01
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- Filesystems Dumped         
   0          0          0

Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- -- Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00

Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0

Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- USAGE BY TAPE:

 Label          Time      Size      %    Nb
 daily-05       0:00       0.0    0.0     0


How can i troubleshoot amflush (I run it as amanda user)

First make sure there is something to flush.  Are there actually
files in your holdingdisk or are you running it because of a
report that says 'warning, some files may be left on holdingdisk'?
The warning just means there is a possibilty of something to flush,
not that there definately is.
  Also, make sure that whatever is in your holdingdisk belongs to
the config you're trying to amflush.
  I would guess there's something in your debug directory as well
(I think /tmp/amanda is the default), but I've never had occasion to
look there after an amflush.

Related question for others on the group:  why does amanda mark a
tape as being used even when nothing is written to it?  Shouldn't
the update to the tapelist be done only after something was written?

Frank

thanks

--
Frederic Medery
System Administrator

LexUM, University of Montreal