On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:20:38PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Despite Jon LaBadie's recent chastizing to "do it yourself", I thought > I'd point out these wishes. > I may try to work on them at some point, perhaps they are already being > fixed. Anyways... > > When amdump hits the end of tape (or other tape error), it reports: > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > Run amflush to flush them to tape. > > Can't it check to see if any dumps actually have been left in the > holding disk?
Hard to do. > Related: If you run amflush and there is an empty date directory in the > holding disk, it will run and increment the tape counter though nothing > is written to tape. It would be nice if it didn't increment the count > if it didn't write anything. amanda should not leave empty directory. How do you get it? > With amrecover, if you say "Y" to the load tape before the tape is done > loading, you get a tape error. It asks whether you wan't to continue, > but it doesn't give you the option to retry the tape, it just moves on > to the next one. A (R)etry option should be useful, a (S)kip might be useful too. Both should be easy to do. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
