On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 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.)

Depands on why you do backups:
  - To protect against system failures: fine, you're system is still alive
    today, so yesterday doesn't matter
  - To protect against user error: bad, a user may have deleted data earlier
    today, and you don't have yesterday's backups anymore

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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