On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:45:57PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2003 at 5:56pm, Per von Zweigbergk wrote
> > Failing that, what is the preferred method to tell amanda to reset the 
> > dumpcycle and start over again with a full dump, discarding any really 
> > old data? This scenario could for example arise if the operator returns 
> > to the site after several weeks of site-wide holidays, only to discover 
> > he had forgot to disable the backups? :)

Now there's a problem I wouldn't mind having :-)

> If amanda hasn't been able to do level 0s for longer than a dumpcycle, 
> it'll know that *everything* needs one.  You can just start giving it 
> tapes and letting it fill 'em up.

How about the ancient dumps in the holding disk (presumably all
degraded-mode incrementals)?  If there are more than a
tape-cycle's-worth of them, does one need to amflush the expired
ones, or is it safe to just delete them from the holding disk,
and amflush only the ones less than a tape-cycle old?  (For
example, are there curinfo or index updates that only happen at
taper time, that would confuse Amanda if they were never done, or
never explicitly expired?)

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