Gasp... Urg.. Ahh. Do you not have sufficient disk space for this buffering action? It helps write speeds quite a bit, particularly on slower machinery where the tape drive may shoe-shine if fed the data too slowly.
With holdng disk (20-60GB) sized drives being commodity items these days, I'd make a bit of noise at TPTB to get one if you cannot find space on the existing system for these temporary files.
I have about 25Gb free on / and I'm just using a dir called '/dumps' in that filesystem for a holding disk, and it works fine.
>Since I'm just backing up the local server machine, I dump it > straight to the tape. I assume that this is fine, as amanda should > realize that if the dump didn't occur, it needs to do an > incremental or whatever based on the last successful backup > (monday-2 in this case), no? > >As far as the tape changer goes, I'm ok, since I just have a single > tape machine. Good info for the future tho, thanks. > >And I'm glad you too have a nicely organized little set of tapes > going there. i don't feel all alone in the world anymore. ;) > >Allie > >>On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:47:44PM +0000, Alexander Shenkin wrote: >> > of week 2's backup is labelled "wednesday-2". If I forget to >> > replace >> >>the >> >> > tape one day, tuesday-2 for example, I just edit the tapelist >> > and put "tuesday-2" at the top, so amanda expects "wednesday-2" >> > as the next tape >> >>on >> >> > wednesday. no problem. >> >>But what did you do with Tuesday's holdingdisk data? >> >>One amanda-way-to-do-it is: >> >> 1) Forget to load tape. >> >> 2) Amanda writes backups to holdingdisk >> >> 3) You realize the next day you forgot to load tape, you >> amflush to the tape you should have used, then load >> the next tape. >> >>Then you've kept to your tidy little self-imposed tape schedule, >> and even better, you don't have blank/obsolete tapes sitting on >> the shelf among the good tapes. (Don't feel bad; I too like to >> keep to my own tidy little self-imposed tape schedule, even though >> I don't *have* to.) >> >> > This was all working great for a few weeks -- four actually. >> > but now >> >>i'm >> >> > running into problems. Amanda won't overwrite used tapes until >> >><tapecycle> >> >> > (= 20 in my case) tapes have been written to. And, since I've >> > skipped a couple tapes, amanda doesn't want to write to >> > "monday-1", or any other >> >>used >> >> > tape for that matter. >> >>As you've pointed out, 'tapecycle 20' means "absolutely, >> positively, NEVER over-write a tape until you've written 20 >> tapes". Amanda is doing *exactly* what you've ordered it to do. >> >> > Is there a way I can get around this? >> >>Just drop tapecycle to 15. Then you can have as many as 5 >>blank/obsolete tapes scattered through the rotation. There is >>absolutely nothing preventing you from having tapecycle < length of >>tapelist. >> >>This won't work the way you want if you have a changer; amanda will >>tend to rummage through the changer looking for an "optimum" >>(oldest/blank) tape to use. But IIRC, with chg-manual, it'll use >> what you give it as long as you don't violate tapecycle. >> >>-- >>Jay Lessert >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accelerant Networks Inc. >> (voice)1.503.439.3461 Beaverton OR, USA >> (fax)1.503.466.9472 > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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