On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:32:06PM +0100, Oliver Simon wrote:
> Hi Group !
> 
> 
> This smorning we got the problem, that many servers were backuped in
> "degraded mode (host /disk lev 1 FAILED)". I think this means, the
> defined hdd-tapes became too small, right ?
> 
> 1) We have 17 tapes defined each one with 75000 MB. 
> Can I expand this to 100000 MB without loosing the current backups ?

Stefan provided answers, I'm curious though.

Each of your "vtapes" is 75GB.  From your past experience in the
amdump reports, how full have they been?  If they have regularly
been half or more, say 40GB/amdump run, does your total disk
storage allocated for vtapes support this?  I.e. it will take
perhaps 17*40GB or 680GB total for your collection of vtapes.
Of course now that you are filling 75GB vtapes, and considering
making them 100GB, will you be allocating a terrabyte of disk
storage to your vtapes?

I guess what I'm driving at, is your problem that 75GB per vtape
is too small or is the "total" storage capacity too small.  Did
the file system run out of space?


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