On Saturday 04 September 2004 01:43, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:59:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 03 September 2004 23:20, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:04:33PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote:
>> >> According to the docs, with amflush you can select "all" to
>> >> flush all dumps waiting in the holding area.  Does it prompt
>> >> you for a new tape after each dump or will it try to put it all
>> >> the dumps on one tape?
>> >
>> >Fits as much on a tape as possible, not necessarily
>> >all the DLE's from one dump consecutively (sp?).
>> >
>> >If runtapes parameter == 1, it will leave any DLE's
>> >that did not fit for the another flush.  If runtapes > 1
>> >it will use more than one tape as necessary.
>>
>> The last time that situation came up here Jon, having runtapes > 1
>> didn't help.  Due to the lack of a working ioctl for rewind in
>> amanda or chg-scsi, it failed.  But thats nothing new.  Apparently
>> I have the only system in the world that from amanda-2.4.1 and
>> RH6.2 through FC2 and whatever the last amanda-2.4.4/5b/px is, and
>> 3 mobo/cpu replacements for where the drive lived, still cannot
>> rewind a tape with anything but mt.  Am I nuts?  Rhetorical,
>> please don't anwser that!
>
>Works here regularly.  Recently I was so negligent I ran my
>abundant holding disks out of space by never replacing worn
>out tapes.  Amanda stopped working, no place to put the data.
>
>When I finally labeled some new tapes and did an amflush,
>it took all 4 tapes it could and still left a lot in the
>holding disks.  Next night it autoflushed during the regular
>amdump and took 2 tapes.

Are you using chg-scsi?

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