On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:59:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2004 23:20, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:04:33PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote:
> >> According to the docs, with amflush you can select "all" to flush
> >> all dumps waiting in the holding area.  Does it prompt you for a
> >> new tape after each dump or will it try to put it all the dumps
> >> on one tape?
> >
> >Fits as much on a tape as possible, not necessarily
> >all the DLE's from one dump consecutively (sp?).
> >
> >If runtapes parameter == 1, it will leave any DLE's
> >that did not fit for the another flush.  If runtapes > 1
> >it will use more than one tape as necessary.
> 
> The last time that situation came up here Jon, having runtapes > 1 
> didn't help.  Due to the lack of a working ioctl for rewind in amanda 
> or chg-scsi, it failed.  But thats nothing new.  Apparently I have 
> the only system in the world that from amanda-2.4.1 and RH6.2 through 
> FC2 and whatever the last amanda-2.4.4/5b/px is, and 3 mobo/cpu 
> replacements for where the drive lived, still cannot rewind a tape 
> with anything but mt.  Am I nuts?  Rhetorical, please don't anwser 
> that!
> 

Works here regularly.  Recently I was so negligent I ran my
abundant holding disks out of space by never replacing worn
out tapes.  Amanda stopped working, no place to put the data.

When I finally labeled some new tapes and did an amflush,
it took all 4 tapes it could and still left a lot in the
holding disks.  Next night it autoflushed during the regular
amdump and took 2 tapes.

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