Would this be a possible feature that I could request for consideration?

Rene

On Mar 24, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Frank Smith wrote:

René Kanters wrote:

Hi,

I have had some problems that an overnight backup 'hung up', i.e., a
level 0 dump started but never properly finished so backups from
other machines did not work either. So far the problem has been with
the western digital disk on my Mac amanda server, where a restart of
the external disk solves the problem.

I catch these problems the same day they happen, so  I am wondering
whether it is possible to run amdump with a configuration of dumping
to a disk (using tpchanger "chg-disk") and not have amanda use the
next slot, but the slot that the failed dump started on.

I could not find any information on that in the man pages.

Any ideas?

If you're sure that nothing you need was written to the 'tape', you
can use amrmtape and then relabel it with the same label.  That
should make it the first tape to use on the next run.
  I've often wondered why Amanda marks a tape as 'used' on a failed
backup even when nothing was written to tape.

Frank

Thanks,
René

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