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1. autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee AT qwest DOT com>; Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:14:20 -0500; I know Amanda wasn't designed to write to a tape until it's full, but I need to do that for now since I don't have enough tapes to keep the number of days of backups that I want. So as the FAQ sugges; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00128.html (13,325 bytes)
2. RE: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee AT qwest DOT com>; Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:33:52 -0500; I forgot to add that I have 447GB available for my holding disk. -Ray; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00129.html (14,312 bytes)
3. Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>; Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:07:03 -0400; Std procedure is to remove the tape until such time as there is a tapefull in the holding disk. For this to work correctly, see the man page and search for "reserve" and adjust that value accordingly; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00132.html (14,656 bytes)
4. Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>; Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:58:13 -0400; ... You've misunderstood the autoflush directive. It is not clearly described in the manpage. Writing to tape during an amdump is considered the norm. There is no directive controlling taping or not; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00134.html (13,684 bytes)
5. RE: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee AT qwest DOT com>; Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:25:01 -0500; Thanks for the clarification, John. It makes sense now. Maybe a better description should be included in future releases? Thanks, Ray This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain conf; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00135.html (14,418 bytes)
6. Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>; Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:31:48 -0400; Agreed, it sure isn't. When I last had a question about it, I read the src's as best I could and came to the conclusion that it has no argument, the meer presence of the keyword being the search crit; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00139.html (15,438 bytes)
7. Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: Sven Rudolph <Sven_Rudolph AT drewag DOT de>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:45:37 +0200; With Amanda 2.5.1 the best way might be to overwrite the tapedev config variable with a non-existing device (even /dev/null should work), like: amdump DailySet1 -o tapedev=/dev/null So the tape is un; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00143.html (12,966 bytes)
8. RE: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee AT qwest DOT com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:51:34 -0500; Thanks, Sven. That's exactly what I'd like to do. However, when I do "amdump DailySet1 -o tapedev=/dev/null" option and don't change "tapedev=/dev/rmt/0cbn" in amanda.conf, amdump is still flushing; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00148.html (14,936 bytes)
9. Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:27:19 -0400; H, The -o flags are not sent to all subprocess. the taper process never get your tapedev overwrite. I will try to make a patch available for that soon. Are you using a changer? It might need fix too.; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00149.html (14,309 bytes)
10. RE: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee AT qwest DOT com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:22:25 -0500; Hi Jean-Louis. Yes, I am using a tape changer. Here's an excerpt from my amanda.conf. tpchanger "/usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx" tapedev "/dev/rmt/0cbn" changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/c; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00150.html (15,303 bytes)
11. Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:04:46 -0400; Lee, Could you start from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.5.1p1-20061020.tar.gz and apply the attached patch. The patch will send the -o options to taper/dumper and chunker proc; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00151.html (23,505 bytes)
12. RE: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump (score: 1): Author: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee AT qwest DOT com>; Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:29:06 -0500; Jean-Louis, The patch worked just as it was supposed to. amflush also ran cleanly and deleted the directories from my holding disk. Thanks a bunch! Ray Is This communication is the property of Qwest; /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2006-10/msg00153.html (17,123 bytes)

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