Joshua,

I know this is a loaded question... but why do I have it in my
head that if there is no spool area dumps will run anyway (although
rather slowly) dumping directly to tape.

Did I just make that up or is/was there some truth to it ?
If that is a process, what is the proper term for it ?

We'll find the proper take and amflush - thank you.

                                                Brian

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 8:55am, Brian Cuttler wrote
> 
> > We seem to have run out of spool area on this system last night
> 
> That's only one of your problems...
> 
> > I'd have expected either a delay in processing or use of degraded
> > mode rather than a failure to backup the partition (degraded is
> > direct to tape, right ?)
> 
> No -- degraded is when there's no tape and dumps go to the holding disk.
> 
> > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [not an amanda tape].
> 
> This is your problem.  Amanda didn't find a tapelabel on the tape, so it 
> didn't use the tape at all.  All dumps went to holding disk (to be 
> amflushed later), but that ran out.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>