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Re: 2.4.5: dumping directly to tape failure: no retry?

2005-11-01 17:05:40
Subject: Re: 2.4.5: dumping directly to tape failure: no retry?
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:58:29 -0500 
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:30:33PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:

> > Is it reasonable to restart the entire dump of the DLE?
> > Are there any other "dump" failures that are retried?
> 
> To the first question: yes, as long as the dump takes lees than
> dtimeout as I'm saying below.
> 

My understanding of dtimeout is the amount of idle time, i.e.
no communications between client and server, regarding the dump.
For example when the dump program is deciding what to do but
before it begins dumping.

If correct, why does that come into play for your decision
about total time of the dump?

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