On 2/4/06, Josef Wolf <jw AT raven.inka DOT de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:31:08PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>
> > The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
> > 2.5.0b2. It is stable and we hope to release 2.5.0 soon. test it and
> > report it if you find a bug in this release.
>
> I've found one more problem.  I reported this problem yesterday to the
> list, but the mail seems to be lost somehow.  Sorry if this report gets
> through twice.
>
> The problem seems to be triggered when runtapes>1 and tape_splitsize is
> set.
>
> When the first tape (vtape in my case) is filled up, driver reports that
> it goes to degraded mode because of a tape error (how comes with
> runtapes>1?).  Taper happily writes out all the remaining chunks to the
> second tape.  But since driver (erronously) thinks that there is a
> serious tape error, the chunks that taper writes to the second tape are
> not removed from the holding disk.
>
> Note that taper writes the remaining chunks after driver said that
> it wants to quit.

I have filed a bug in sourceforge bugtracker for this problem.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1425436&group_id=120&atid=100120

Paddy

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