> Yes, but what would happen if I never ran amflush? (Just for the sake 
> of argument? :)

Then your holding disk would stay full forever, and you would lose that
functionality of amanda. You wouldn't have to run amflush. If you really
didn't want those backups, you could always just rm -rf *.* in that
directory. Then you would recover the space and regain the holding disk.
> 
> >>
> >> 2) If there is a week long holiday, does the operator have 
> to flush 
> >> onto 5 more tapes?
> >
> > No, you can choose to flush them all to one tape if it will 
> fit. But 
> > since you are a school, and no data would be changing during that 
> > vacation time (*unless you have teachers who are gluttons for 
> > punishment, I guess*), wouldn't you just turn off that cron job for 
> > that week??
> 
> Yeah. But I'm trying to develop a "least path of resistance" 
> method of 
> administration. :) I.e. if I don't HAVE to remove it from the 
> cron job, 
> I see no reason why.

Exactly...I am a big fan of this as well. I will admit that I am guilty
of letting a level1 dump sit on my holding disk for 2 weeks without
flushing it and then just deleting it. That tape would have been
overwritten at that time anyway! Don't look at me like that ~ I'm sure
I'm not the only one who's ever done it...I'm not proud of it *sniff*...

;)