Gaby vanhegan <gaby AT vanhegan DOT net> writes:

> On 16 Mar 2005, at 13:15, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:53:02PM +0000, Gaby vanhegan wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Is there any reason why I would not want to set autoflush to "yes" in
>>> amanda.conf?  I have plenty of space on my tapes (40gb tapes, usually
>>> 2-5gb backups) and as far as I can see this will simply lower the
>>> amount of admin I have to do?
>>
>> I'm sure there are many more, I'll just throw out one.
>>
>> I want each day's dumps on separate tapes.  Doesn't matter to me,
>> but someone who manages the location of tapes by date might care.
>
> This is on a daily backup set that runs a 7-day incremental cycle and
> I'd prefer it to just flush things to tape, as all the tapes in the
> set are in the changer.  So I could safely go ahead and turn this on?

Yes, turn it on.

Of course, you should look at it in a few days and see if it is really
what you want.  The backups will not be lost by turning on the flag.

-- 
Kevin Dalley
kevin AT kelphead DOT org