On Fri, 23 May 2003 at 1:53pm, Eric Siegerman wrote

> > 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?)

The latter.  It'd be just fine to amflush only the ones that wouldn't 
already have been overwritten.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University