On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:25, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >Is anyone else using vtapes with runtapes > 1?
> >
> >Recently I decreased tapelength and increased runtapes from 1 to 2.
> >On most days 1 vtape is sufficient. But every time Amanda hits
> > (artificial as specified by tapetype) end of tape on a vtape and
> > retries on the second tape,
> >
> >she fails with:
> >|*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
> >|
> >|These dumps were to tapes DAILY14, DAILY15.
> >|The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: DAILY16, DAILY17.
> >|
> >|FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >|  anakin     /usr/share lev 3 FAILED ["data write: Connection reset
> >| by peer"]

> ISTR I had a similar problem Geert, but that was because I'd somehow 
> disabled my holding disk when I converted to vtapes.  Fixing the 

I'm indeed not using a holding disk.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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