Guy Dallaire wrote:

Suppose amanda was not able to dump some host yesterday (all estimates
timed for all disks of that host). If I put a new tape in the drive,
and do an "amdump config host /diskx /disky", will this dump be
accounted for by the planner ? I mean, if the planner decided to
backup thoses disks later and I do it NOW, will it be aware of that ?

Yes.

Another bonus question:

In the amanda man pages, I see usage syntax I'm not familiar with.
There are options listed like this (amadmin man page example)

force-bump [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+

Now suppose that I have 3 hosts hosta, hostb and hostc and ecah one
has 3 disks: diska diskb and diskc

does this mean that these syntaxes are correct ?

Yes.

amadmin myconfig force-bump hosta

All disks on hosta

amadmin myconfig force-bump hosta hostb diska diskb

all disks on hosta, but only diska and diskb on hostb

amadmin myconfig force-bump hosta diskc hostb

only diskc on hosta and all disks on hostb


Of course, I you happen to name disk with the same name as a host
in the disklist file, I'm not sure what happens...


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