On Wednesday 20 October 2004 17:54, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:02:38PM -0400, Todd Pfaff wrote:
>> I'm using amanda-2.4.4p3 with the file driver and chg-disk changer
>> for vtapes.
>>
>> Sometimes a dump fails and driver retries:
>>
>>   driver: client /some/path 1 [dump to tape failed, will try
>> again]
>>
>> and then it fails again and retries again, and this repeats until
>> I kill the amanda processes.
>>
>> This last time this happened I caught it after driver/dumper/taper
>> had created about 200 0 length dump files in the vtape directory. 
>> The client machine it was trying to dump from was offline.  It had
>> gone offline sometime after the planner stage and so the planner
>> had included it. There was no indication that this retrying was
>> ever going to stop.
>>
>> I have been using amanda for years with tapes and I never
>> experienced this behaviour before so it came as quite a surprise.
>>
>> Is there any way to limit this retrying by driver?
>
>A guess only, might your vtape size be smaller than your DLE?
>Similar to trying to write to a tape and reaching end of tape.
>And what do you have "runtapes" set to.  For real tapes that
>specifies the maximum number of tapes that can be used for
>any one amanda dump or flush.  I guess that affects vtapes too.
>
>jl

I think Jon, in that event (DLE too big for the tape) that it will 
simply go into an advance to the next vtape and retry till it runs 
out of vtapes (runtapes > 1 of course) to use loop.  This happened to 
me when I was first setting my current lashup up.  This walks and 
quacks like a different duck to me if it made 200 zero length files 
on the same vtape.

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