"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >We're using the Amanda version 2.3.0.4 on Solaris.
>
> Good grief! :-)
I agree!! I didn't set it up! It's legacy from about three
sys-admin's ago.
> >We have been having the problem (recentlty) where
> >the backups have been failing due to reaching the end
> >of the tape. ...
>
> There are two ways you could be hitting end of tape. It might be that
> the total cumulative size of all the image is bigger than the tape.
> Or you might have a single image that won't fit on a single tape.
>
> Which is it?
Total size of all images bigger than tape.
> The former (lots of images, but all smaller than a single tape) can
> be dealt with using a tape changer. Note that you don't have to have
> an actual hardware changer. Amanda comes with two "manual" changers
> (chg-manual and chg-multi) and I have another I'll be glad to help anyone
> with who wants it. Or you could write your own (they are pretty simple
> shell/Perl scripts).
There's one to change tapes when the dumps are done. Do you have
an example of what goes in the configs to make this happen? I can just
have the tape changer called whenever the need is there for a second
tape.
> If you do decide to upgrade, just a head's up that 2.4 changed the
> protocol and breaks backward compatibility with 2.3 (not one of our
> finer moments -- sigh), so you have to upgrade everything at once.
Yeah, I had read that. I'm not looking forward to that at all, but
at some point, we're going to have to do it.
