If you place this line in your amanda.conf:

autoflush on

then you don't have to worry about this type of problem in the
future.  Anything left over from the previous run will be flushed
without the need for an amflush.  Sometimes, my tape fails partway
through, or I run out of memory, or some other disaster strikes.  I
don't worry about it much.  I know that I can catch up with the next
amdump. 

When amanda plays catchup on your next run, there might be some left
over in the holding disk, but again, that will be handled with the
next run with autoflush turned on.

"Erik P. Olsen" <erik AT epo DOT dk> writes:

> 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?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Erik P. Olsen
>

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Kevin Dalley
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