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Re: How to get rid of unflushed dumps?

2004-08-27 09:13:12
Subject: Re: How to get rid of unflushed dumps?
From: Jukka Salmi <j+amanda AT 2004.salmi DOT ch>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:10:21 +0200
Hi,

Greg Troxel --> amanda-users (2004-08-27 08:38:13 -0400):
> rm'ing the holding dir should work fine.  run amadmin config find
> before and after and you'll note that the disks are recorded as being
> in the holding dir, but not assigned to a tape.

Worked fine, thanks!


> The only issue I can see is getting amanda's dump levels and
> /etc/dumpdates out of sync, but if these are old and you have more
> recent level 0s, that won't matter.  I would guess that's the case or
> you wouldn't want to delete them...

Exactly. (This particular system does daily level 0 backups exclusively,
so unflushed dumps are obsolete after one day.)


Cheers, Jukka

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