I have 500GB of data from a single dump to flush that
barely overflows a single tape.  I'd prefer not to
flush and waste all that space on the second tape. 
What I have been doing in these cases is to fill the
rest of our terabyte holdingdisk, and then flush to
two tapes.  It would be nice if the autoflush could
take away a step for me.

BTW, we have reserve set to 0.  

JB

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

> 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 only once
> they are put on 
> tape, that's why it retry it.
> 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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