Mike wrote:
I had an interesting amanda issue this morning.
Sysadmin #1 started amdump this morning to correct a failed dump from
last night. Sysadmin #2 needed to restore a file, and started amrecover
on the backup machine. Sysadmin #2 was unaware of the running backup
process and used amtape to change slots. OOPS, both sysadmins got
really weird errors, not quite descriptive of the actual problem (that
you cant dump and restore at the same time). Maybe a check could be
Actually, I have two tapedrives (used with chg-multi) and I do sometimes
restore while dumping or flushing... It is possible to dump and restore
at the same time, when not using the same tapedrive.
added to amtape (and maybe amrecover) to check for a running backup
process. Even though I am using chg-disk changing tapes in the middle
of a dump can not be a good thing.....
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