On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 11:44 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:25, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> >I have had a peculiar situation where a back-up failed to succeed.
> > The error message was:
> >epo.dk     /var lev 2 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
> >
> >It later turned out not to be too little holding disk space. I had
> >simply forgotten to set the write inhibit switch off when I inserted
> > the tape. Of course the holding space ran full and that was later
> > written to tape by the amflush command. So far so good, but what
> > about all the data that was not backed-up when the staging area ran
> > full? Has that been backed up by the amflush command? If not what
> > shall I do (have done) in this case?
> 
> If you do not have anything left in the holding disk area after the 
> amflush is done, you should be in good shape.  Amanda will attempt to 
> play catchup if there is enough spare tape capacity, and should be 
> back to normal in not more than 1 or 2 days.  If the tape capacity is 
> short, then maybe an extra run might be in order.

There was nothing left in the staging area, but what made me suspicious
was the fact that the amflush command took so little time to complete.

-- 
Regards,
Erik P. Olsen