It sounds like a good feature - if you have enough holding area
you could even hold files for a configurable number of days.

You'll need a way to differentiate held files from ones that didn't
properly flush though, perhaps moving to a subdirectory of the
holding area, YYYYMMDD-HELD or modifying the file name somehow.

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 07:06:48PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote:
> SND wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > i want the backed up files from a nightly amdump-run to remain on the
> > holding disk (after they were successfully written to tape!) at least for
> > one day. So it would be possible to do faster and more comfortable restores
> > the next day.
> > 
> > Is there an option to acomplish that? And if there is one, is it possible to
> > force amanda to remove that data after a defined period of time?
> > 
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance and best regards,
> 
> Not that I know the answer, but when I think about it I totally agree 
> with this being a great function. I would immediatly configure my system 
> to leave the last nights backups on disk until the next job starts, then 
> it could purge yesterdays data if it was successfully written to tape.
> 
> /Andreas
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