On Sunday 08 September 2002 11:59, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>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.

Whats the syntax to setup say a 8 gig reserve for level 0's, eg 
about half what I have for holding right now.

>> 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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