Why run amdump if you don't want new dump? Why not use amflush?

If the answer is: Because amdump only dump a few dle.
Then you should set the "reserve" to a value below 100.

With reserve < 100, amdump record full dump once they are on holding disk.

Jean-Louis

James Brown wrote:

--- 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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