Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Mike Fahey <mfahey AT enter DOT net> wrote:
>> Can I force amanda to write the dumps it has finished while it is still
>> dumping?
> 
> Amanda already does that!  Note that Amanda can only write one dump to
> the device (even hard disk) at any given time.  Still, that should go
> pretty quickly.
> 
> Can you give some more evidence that the taper isn't starting until
> all of the dumps are finished?

Not using a holding disk would cause that behavior, as would a setting
of 'inparallel 1'.

Frank

> 
> Dustin
> 


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