On Fri 06 Sep 02 16:59, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:01:45AM +0200, Brian Jonnes wrote: > > Pulled the tape out, plugged it back in, and now its dumping fine. Can > > anyone make sense of this? > > I don't use your systems but ISTR people mentioning using mt to set the > block size to 32K.
Tried that just now; failed. Now the strange thing is that I'm getting _partial_ success now. The "taper" line in NOTES gives me (as an example): taper: tape DAILY_02 kb 467776 fm 48 writing filemark: Input/output error Where previously it was giving me kb 0 (with ide-tape). Again I stress, some of the dumps finish fine. I got just under 2GB written on Thursday morning, but Friday and Saturday have now failed (Friday's got 64kb written; tried an amflush and it got 35MB written). I'm now guessing that ide-tape was merely _reporting_ that 0k was written; ide-scsi is now being more accurate with regards to how much data is written before failure. I think I'm gonna throw this drive against the wall! As I've mentioned, I already had the unit swapped out. Right now I can't imagine it being anything else, 'cause the errors are distributed throughout the tape cycle. ..Brian > > BTW is there a way of getting amanda to put level 0's in "degraded mode"? > > I'd still like full dumps when I have to manually run amdump. > > level 0 and degraded mode? Aren't these non-sequitors? I thought degraded > mode meant falling back to incrementals because there was no place to put > the level 0's. I.e. the tape was not working and the holding disk did not > have enough unreserved space to hold the level 0's. So where would you > like amanda to put your huge level 0's if it can't put it to tape or to > disk? > > What's your holding disk space and reserve % situation? -- Init Systems - Linux consulting 031 767-0139 082 769-2320 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
