Nevermind on #4. I found I can say 'amflush DBackup host1 host2 host3'. Thanks.

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org] On Behalf Of Zembower, Kevin
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:54 AM
To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: RE: Advice on flushing a large dump

Marc, thanks so much for your suggestions. This leads me to these further 
questions:

3). Is there any way to destroy what's on my holdingdisk now for the tobaccodev 
server, so that amanda will again try to backup at the level it tried before? 
I've now set the dumptype to use server compression for this host, so I may get 
a result that will fit on the tape.

4). Is there any way to tell amflush to flush more than one host? From last 
night, I now have all my hosts on the holding disk, but the large dump from 
tobaccodev won't allow any of them to be flushed to tape. I'd like to 
efficiently dump the ones other than tobaccodev to tape. Is there way to tell 
amflush to flush all the hosts EXCEPT tobaccodev?

Thanks, again, for your suggestions and advice.

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org] On Behalf Of Marc Muehlfeld
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:41 AM
To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: Advice on flushing a large dump

Zembower, Kevin schrieb:
>   taper: tape DBackup11 kb 16766592 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device
>   driver: Taper  error: "[writing file: No space left on device]"

I used my calculator to add the filesizes of your holding disk: 18.363.547 Kb



> My questions are
> 1) Don't understand why I can't flush less than 20GB of data to my tapes 
> which are supposed to hold 20GB raw and more compressed. I have compression 
> turned off on the drive. I thought I was compressing the dumps, but I just 
> checked the disklist and amanda.conf and found I wasn't.

How much is the "length" parameter of the tapetype you use? Have you created
your own tapetype definition, by using amtapetype? This fills a tape up to the
end with data to find out the parameter for your tape.



> 2) Is there any way to compress the files now on the holdingdisk before 
> they're taped?

If you configured compression in your dumptype section it allready is
compressed. If not, I think amanda can't handle the restore, if you compress
the holdingdisk data and flush it to tape.




Regards
Marc

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