On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:08:59PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
> 

I probably read more into it than was there.
I thought that each dump file was on a different tape.

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