Okay, so I was had :-) Not the first time, won't be the last...

Thanks much,
Bruce.


On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Bruce Thompson wrote:

This is great news for April Fool's Day!

On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:

Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 6.2.

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Here's a list of the changes for release 6.2 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.

Amanda configuration file changes
amanda.conf changes
flush-threshold-dumped
flush-threshold-scheduled
 taperflush
 device_property

I'm really looking forward to experimenting with these new config options. Besides the examples, is there a further discussion somewhere on these options? I'm looking to see if I can avoid a situation I seem to find myself in periodically.

Sometimes, I'll end up with a run that exceeds the amount that runtapes permits. In these cases what ends up happening is that I end up writing part of a big DLE onto the vtapes that remain until runtapes is exhausted. At that point, the DLE is left in holding and nothing is lost, it will get written out when I flush (manually or auto). If I could have avoided writing those vtapes at the end then I'd not have so much wasted space (the vtapes written at the end of the run are effectively wasted). What I'd like to be able to do is to specify that writing shall not occur until it is known for certain that the DLE can fit in the remaining vtapes. it seems to me that these new settings will allow me to do this, but without a lot of experimentation I'm not certain how best to configure this.

In addition to wasting vtape space, it also makes recovery more complicated if I use amrecover. The tapes that got part of the DLE are still recorded as holding that DLE and so when I attempt to recover I need to delete those tapes first or the recover will fail in a most ugly fashion.

Any thoughts, suggestions, etc. gratefully received!

Cheers,
Bruce.