On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:53:39AM +0200, Brian Jonnes wrote:
> On Fri 06 Sep 02 16:59, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > level 0 and degraded mode?  Aren't these non-sequitors?  I thought degraded
> > mode meant falling back to incrementals because there was no place to put
> > the level 0's.  I.e. the tape was not working and the holding disk did not
> > have enough unreserved space to hold the level 0's.  So where would you
> > like amanda to put your huge level 0's if it can't put it to tape or to
> > disk?
> 
> Sorry, I think what I should be doing is splitting the amdump and amflush. In 
> other words, all dumps go to disk, and then I can manually flush ('cause I'm 
> having this intermittence).
> 
> But the report does say
>   driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.
> 
> Even though I do have plenty holding disk (Remember -- 4GB tapes):
>    Holding disk /export/backupstore: 26773908 KB disk space available, that's 
> plenty

The second part of my question was what percentage is reserved?
The default is 100%.  I.e. 100% reserved for incrementals,
therefore none of those 26GB for level 0's and thus forced degraded mode.

> Although before I complain about _this_ problem, I should probably upgrade. 
> Like I mentioned to someone else -- I'm being a distro weenie. I _like_ 
> everything Debianized -- will see if the debian package scripts drop in over 
> the new version.

Many, myself included, are running 2.4.2 on already installed systems.
Nothing wrong with them at all. But I'd put newer releases on new systems.

> By the way, the latest beta is considered stable?

Jean-Louis announced that unless people report serious problems in b4,
it will soon become the formal release of 2.4.3.

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