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
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
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:08:59 -0400
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
I probably read more into it than was there. I thought that each dump file was on a different tape. -- Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princet
Author: Todd Pfaff <pfaff AT rhpcs.mcmaster DOT ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:52:47 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks to Jon LaBadie, Gene Heskett, and Jean-Louis Martineau for replies. Jean-Louis supplied me with a patch which I modified slightly and that I'm now using. It turns out that some code in server-
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:42:23 -0400
I didn't read that into it, but then the questioner could have worded it better, so its possible, but that would take 200 vtapes, and I don't think anyone has explored it that far for lack of suffici
He's good isn't he :)) Interesting edge case. Glad JLM was able to recognize it so quickly. -- Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 0