--- Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:

> James Brown wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and
> > starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a
> backup
> > job that was already on holding disk.  One was
> waiting
> > to be flushed, the other was getting estimates. 
> (I
> > had to kill the job
> > since I didn't want to run the 500GB backup
> again!).
> >
> > With autoflush enabled, will Amanda attempt to run
> > another backup of the DLE that needs to be
> flushed?
> >   
> 
> Yes, amdump always do a dump of all dle.
> autoflush allow amdump to also flush to tape the
> dump that are already 
> on holding disk.
> autoflush doesn't change what will be dumped.
> 
> 
> Jean-Louis


This is a problem for me.  The particular
configuration I am using does FULL backups only.
In this case, I don't need the extra backup and I
can't remove the job from the disklist since Amanda
won't flush otherwise.

-JB


      
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