On Monday 14 February 2005 12:05, Gaby vanhegan wrote:
>On 14 Feb 2005, at 16:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I just found a load of old dumps in my holding directory that,
>>> for whatever reason, weren't written to tape.  I've now flushed
>>> all of these to tape but they're still in the holding folder.  Is
>>> it safe to rm -rf them all now?
>>
>> They should have been deleted from the holding disk, one by one,
>> after they were successfully written to the tape.  The fact that
>> they weren't would sure make me nervous about the tapes contents.
>
>OK, I've run amflush again.  Looking back at it, it seems to have
>written some of the dumps to tape, but not all of them.  Hopefully
> it should work it's way through them in time.
>
>If these dumps on the holding disk get superseded by other, more
> recent backups, will they automatically be removed from the holding
> disk?

Thats not a question I've found an answer for, noy letting the 
situation get to that point.  Off the top of my head, I'd say no, but 
thats pure SWAG.  Sorry.

What you may be seeing now is the dumps are bigger than the tape, and 
it may takes several tapes to hold them all in that event.

>Gaby

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