Good morning,

I've got a 2.4.4 amanda on Solaris 9...

We have this running well, consolidated all DLE to the single
L9/LTO rather than splitting them across the L9/LTO (L9 - Sun
StorEdge 9 slot jukebox) SDLT320, able to do this since we
replaced amanda with a version with gtar compile option.

We where a little backed up, the /maildb2/five DLE being held
over and autoflushing the next day. Allowing only 3 tapes/run
/maildb2/five was the last DLE dumped and was being left over
for the following evening to be autoflushed...

I allowed a 4th tape and reordered the dumporter, I wanted to 
start with the largest DLEs so they would get started, rather
than starting close to start of business and running into the
mid-afternoon.

Unfortunately we seem to have started a "dump to tape", rather
than delaying for holding space wait.

Is there a way to tell amanda that I'd prefer "wait on holding area"
rather than allowing "dump to tape" ?

Is there a method (perhaps in a newer version) that will allow some
type of tapeorder, I could probably fill the tapes well with Ssss
while I'd wanted to initiate the dumps as SSSsss.

wcnotes:/              0  4197472k finished (19:52:00)
wcnotes:/export        0 13843488k finished (2:54:50)
wcnotes:/maildb        1126322336k finished (7:21:00)
wcnotes:/maildb2/five  1 66245170k dump done (5:14:29), wait for writing to tape
wcnotes:/maildb2/four  1 11144610k writing to tape (7:21:11)
wcnotes:/maildb2/one   1 50116350k dumping  1370368k (  2.73%) (7:21:11)
wcnotes:/maildb2/three 0 29249530k finished (1:12:39)
wcnotes:/maildb2/two   1 41897850k dumping  1325152k (  3.16%) (7:21:26)
wcnotes:/usr1          0   293792k finished (19:52:39)

                                                thank you,

                                                Brian
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