On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:53:41PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> How about the ancient dumps in the holding disk (presumably all
> degraded-mode incrementals)?

Not necessarily.  If you set the reserve to something less than 100% (the
default value), there could be some level 0s on the holding disk, too.

> 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?

No need to flush them.  They can be deleted with extreme prejudice.

If you do want to keep them around, though, you don't need to flush each
dump to a separate tape.  You can tell amflush to flush all of them
and it'll happily fill tapes with as many runs' worth of data as they
can hold.