I forgot to add that I have 447GB available for my holding disk.

-Ray

> 
> I know Amanda wasn't designed to write to a tape until it's 
> full, but I
> need to do that for now since I don't have enough tapes to keep the
> number of days of backups that I want.  So as the FAQ suggested, I'd
> like to keep all the dumps on the holding disk and just run amflush
> whenever the holding disk gets enough data to fill one tape.
> 
> I'm running 2.5.1p1 with the following in amanda.conf:
> 
> autoflush off
> 
> holdingdisk hd1 {
>     comment "main holding disk"
>     directory "/dumps/amanda"
>     use 155 Gb          
>     chunksize 1Gb
>     }
> 
> define dumptype global {
>     comment "Global definitions"
>     index yes
>     record yes
>     auth "ssh"
>     ssh_keys "/usr/local/var/amanda/.ssh/id_rsa_amdump"
>     exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude_from_backups.txt"
>     holdingdisk yes
> }
> 
> However, when I run an amdump that only backs up a 200MB of 
> data, I can
> see the dumps being written to /dump/amanda, but then it's be 
> flushed to
> tape automatically at the end of amdump.  I also tried "autoflush no"
> and commenting the line out (default should be "off", right?), but it
> always flushes to tape after a dump.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 
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