Now you're outside of my limited expertise with Amanda :-) I have only handled backups to a single tape drive, no changers. There is plenty of experience on the amanda-users list though so I'm gonna hand it off to them.
And, actually your English is just fine! S�bastien GALLET wrote: > But amanda supports backups on several tapes (after debugging chg-manual > ;) ) > Actually, i can backup my divx (40 files, 27 GB) on 2 tapes. Amdump and > amverify seems to be ok with this. I don't try amrecover. > > I think that amanda has an error counter inside. And after a number of > tape errors (bad blocks), she fails, thinking the tape is bad. Actually, > there's some errors on my tapes (but they are catched and repaired by > the onstream driver). I think this counter is not putting to zero after > changing a tape. > What do you think about this ??? > > I'm really sorry for my poor english > > Scott Sanders a �crit: > > >Actually chunksize in the amanda.conf refers more to the largest single > >file your OS can handle not how big of a chunk it hands to the tape drive. > > > >I was just guessing from the output in your email that you were trying to > >back up individual files that are 15GB. If you are just backing up > >individual MP3's then you'll just need to try and back up smaller > >directories of them. If the directory, or file system, you are trying to > >back up is larger than a single tape amanda will fail. > > > >S�bastien GALLET wrote: > > > > > > > >>I've tried 2 chunksize : 2GB and 1GB. > >>I will try 512 MB and see > >>Thanks > >> > >>Scott Sanders a �crit: > >> > >> > >> > >>>taper is the proccess trying to write to the tape. It failed 3 times > >>>and gave the error about too many retries. > >>> > >>>Are you having any trouble writing smaller files to tape? It looks > >>>like you're trying to get files that are *just* under 15GB onto those > >>>15GB tapes. Maybe you should try sending the mp3's in smaller chunks. > >>> > >>>S�bastien GALLET wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> And what about the [too many taper retries] error > >>>> > >>>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>> *From:* Scott Sanders <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> *To:* S�bastien GALLET <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:04 PM > >>>> *Subject:* Re: Multi-Tape error > >>>> Well the "No space left on device" error leads me to believe > >>>> that you either ran out of tape of the file it's trying to write > >>>> is larger than the amount of tape amanda thinks she has left. > >>>> > >>>> S�bastien GALLET wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> I'm trying to backup my mp3 collection (a little more than 60 > >>>>> Gb) on my onstream DI-30 tape (15 Gb).The 2 first tapes work > >>>>> fine but when backing up on the third, amdump stops and report > >>>>> this : shining /var/datacentre/mp3 lev 0 FAILED [too many > >>>>> taper retries] NOTES: > >>>>> taper: tape Mp3Set1 kb 14752480 fm 1 writing file: No space > >>>>> left on device > >>>>> taper: retrying shining:/var/datacentre/mp3.0 on new tape: > >>>>> [writing file: No space left on device] > >>>>> taper: tape Mp3Set2 kb 14754112 fm 1 writing file: No space > >>>>> left on device > >>>>> taper: retrying shining:/var/datacentre/mp3.0 on new tape: > >>>>> [writing file: No space left on device] > >>>>> taper: tape Mp3Set3 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] What does it mean ???TIA > >>>>> > >>>>> > > > > > >
