Andre,
Yes, that is typical behavior for amanda. If you have sufficient
holding disk to store dumps they will be written to the work area
and wait their until either you run an # amflush or you run a
successfull # amdump AND have the autoflush parameter set to yes.
There is a reserve parameter that may come into play though
from one of my amanda.conf files... This value comes into play here
and will effect the size of the dumps that amanda things you can
store.
# reserve 30 # percent
# This means save at least 30% of the holding disk space for degraded
# mode backups.
Brian
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:16:02PM +0200, Andre Brandt wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've just a little question - perhaps you can help me:
>
> I've configured our tape backup with amanda a few weeks ago. Everything
> is fine - the backup is done every night without any problems. The
> problem is, that our office is closed from time to time. And if the tape
> isn't changed, amanda waits until the right tape is inserted and after
> that the backup starts. Is it possible to configure amanda to anyway
> start the backup and use the holding disk although right the tape isn't
> inserted? So that, for example, one or two backup jobs are written to
> disk and after the tape were inserted, they will be written to tape?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andre
>
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