Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:56:22 -0400 (EDT)
We are very confused this morning. This report says "short write", usually I take that to mean that we filled up the tape and we probably need to perfrom a flush. However we have numbers in all the c
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
The messages are a bit misleading -- I agree. They're also different in 2.4.2p2. What happened is that amanda starting dumping newton:/usr4 straight to tape, since it is too big for your holding disk
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:26:40 -0400 (EDT)
Joshua, That would have been our interpretation except for one message that we aren't used to seeing in those circumstances. "I'd have taken "ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK" to normally mean just that, us
Well, your taper line in the report says it wrote 19.9G to tape, and your failed dump was trying to write 6.8G. How big are your tapes, and what is your tapetype set to? Frank We are very confused th
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:52:08 -0400 (EDT)
Frank, I think Joshua nailed it but your right, may be we can squeeze a little more out of the hardware (looks like we did pretty good though). The drive is in fact a DLT 4000 on a SunOS 5.6 system (