Hello Toomas,
I'd thought degraded meant a performance loss but the data still
moved to tape. If degraded means no tape, files left in holding
partition then what is the term for moving to tape directly ?
On another note, to follow up, or ask again on a note I posted a
few days ago...
Last night my jukebox should have moved back to the lowest number
slot with a valid tape, from the highest number slot. ie, amanda
#1 needed to move from NEWTONL09 tape in slot 9 to NEWTONL01 tape
in slot 1 and amanda # 2 should have moved from NEWTONR09 in slot
9 to NEWTONR05 in slot 5 (where slots 1-4 are being saved for the
Saturday only Amanda # 3 doing always-full with yet another tape
naming scheme).
Anyway, this is the 2nd time we failed to move the tape to a lower
slot number, I will include the amdump mail below.
-- from amdump email --
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label NEWTONL01 or new tape not found in rack].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: NEWTONL01.
-- end email inclusion --
Last time this occured I run amcheck which found the tape and then
amflush ran correctly.
This time I ran only amflush and the tape was found and the flush
ran correctly.
humm, details.
Solaris 8, Amanda 2.4.2p2 with chg-zd-mtx from 2.4.3, MTX 1.2.16rel,
tape drive is an LTO, jukeboxes are SUN Storedge 9, ie HP C7145
thanks,
Brian
> Hi!
>
> > Since this left /amanda/work as unavailable I'd have expected amanda
> > to have run in degraded mode writing directly to the tape drive,
> > however amanda reported that there was no more room in the work area
> > and exited without performing any dumps at all.
>
> Isn't the term 'degraded mode' used in the situation exactly opposite
> to yours, i.e. when the tape is not available but holding disk is then
> Amanda tries to put as much of stuff as possible on the holding disk?
>
> I still think, though, that in your situation dumps should have gone
> directly to tape.
> --
> Toomas Aas | toomas.aas AT raad.tartu DOT ee |
> http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
> * I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
>
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