--On Friday, February 27, 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Allen Liu --- work <allen AT 
bellglobal DOT com> wrote:

> Just repost because I dodn't get any respose.
> Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ?

I haven't used chg-manual, but I assume it sits there waiting for
you to put in a tape and say its ready.
   However, if you have adequate holdingdisk space, it could still
do incrementals (and fulls if reserve isn't set too low) to disk,
although perhaps it is waiting on the manual input before deciding
on whether to run in normal or degraded mode.


Frank

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Allen Liu
> 
> IP Application Design and Engineering
> Bell Canada
> (613) 781-7368, allen AT bellglobal DOT com
> 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allen Liu --- work" <allen AT bellglobal DOT com>
> To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM
> Subject: ? holding disk contents
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like.
>> My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in.
>> When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my
>> holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose
> to
>> have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade
> mode
>> ?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Allen Liu
>> 
>> IP Application Design and Engineering
>> Bell Canada
>> (613) 781-7368, allen AT bellglobal DOT com
>> 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4
>> 
>> 



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