I still don't understand what you want?

How many DLE? total size?

You said you ask only for full dump? how do you configured amanda?
You want a full dump done at which interval? every days? week? ...

attach you config file and all useful information.

What is strange is why you don't want a backup of all dle?

Jean-Louis

James Brown wrote:

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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