On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:38:59PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > > You know you have a DLE that is too big to tape and that amanda
> > > > does not handle it well.  Isn't it time to stop wasting time
> > > > and tape and split the DLE?
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > Ah, I'm sorry!  I should not assume that amanda can do it's own math.  I
> > > must sit down with a calculator every night and do my own estimates and
> > > make this all work?
> > > Jon, this is a fairly serious problem with amanda.  Why are you blaming 
> > > the
> > > reporter instead of trying to fix the problem?
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:14:16PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > No, I was commenting on the futility of trying again something that failed
> > once unexpectedly, you knew it was going to fail again, and have known from
> > 5 years of amanda experience that that particular situation would always 
> > fail.
>  
> THAT was already done.  Several days ago.  What I didn't stop to do was
> delete the amount to flush because I assumed amanda would do the math and
> realize it couldn't back it up and then discard it.  I didn't expect taper
> to blindly attempt something guaranteed to fail.


Discard a perfectly valid dump?  Possibly the one and only copy of some data?
It still could be used by a SysAdmin in a number of ways.  For example, it
could be manually taped or stored in some manner; it could be used for amanda
restore/recovery from the holding disk.  I wouldn't assume, nor want, amanda
to discard it under the conditions you encountered.  How to deal with the
unexpected situation should be the SA's decision.

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