Thanks,, Frank.
How to force it to run in downgrade mode ?

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: "Frank Smith" <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com>
To: "Allen Liu --- work" <allen AT bellglobal DOT com>; <amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents


> --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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