On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 at 10:07am, Michael P. Blinn wrote > I have had dumpcycle set to 0 for months, and yet I continue to have lots of > level 1 backups. I saw a post through the last about forcing it each day and > thought this would cure the problem. - Will fixing the below (reserve) allow > dumpcycle 0 to do its thing and negate the need for the force command?
Yep -- it should. > I'm not using a tape because for some reason backups fail and the network > dies whenever amdump runs to a bad tape. I couldn't find a utility to test > tapes for back blocks (or whatever they're called on streaming media) so > until I can find out which of my tapes are dying, I just amflush them the > next day. So, yes, you're in degraded mode. Set your reserve to 90 (or higher) and have at it. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
