On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:20:38PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Despite Jon LaBadie's recent chastizing to "do it yourself", I thought 
> I'd point out these wishes.
> I may try to work on them at some point, perhaps they are already being 
> fixed.  Anyways...
> 
> When amdump hits the end of tape (or other tape error), it reports:
> 
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> 
> Can't it check to see if any dumps actually have been left in the 
> holding disk?

Hard to do.

> Related: If you run amflush and there is an empty date directory in the 
> holding disk, it will run and increment the tape counter though nothing 
> is written to tape.  It would be nice if it didn't increment the count 
> if it didn't write anything.

amanda should not leave empty directory. How do you get it?

> With amrecover, if you say "Y" to the load tape before the tape is done 
> loading, you get a tape error.  It asks whether you wan't to continue, 
> but it doesn't give you the option to retry the tape, it just moves on 
> to the next one.

A (R)etry option should be useful, a (S)kip might be useful too.
Both should be easy to do.

Jean-Louis
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