Hi Frank, Thanks for your response, see comments inline.
regards, Tony. --- Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Monday, October 06, 2003 06:36:41 +0100 Tony > > So what was on the 'taper' line of the report ? It should > look > something like: > taper: tape archive07 kb 43505184 fm 23 [OK] (from one of my > reports) > which tells you how many bytes and images were successfully > written > to tape. > For the one using software-compression (gzip): taper: tape daily01wed kb 14775776 fm 29 writing file: No space left on device driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error. For the one not using sw-compression: taper: tape daily01fri kb 22303072 fm 29 writing file: No space left on device > > Is the dump going to a holding disk and then streamed to tape, > or > as it looks like from the times, going straight to tape? If > the > latter, if it isn't dumping fast enough the tape might be > catching > up and shoe-shining as it constantly backspaces and starts > over. > That can waste a lot of tape as well as being slow. > holding disk is defined as: 4000 MB I will try setting this to a larger value, what is recommended ? Does Amanda have to dump each disk set to holding disk before it can be backed up to tape ? Or can Amanda stream to the holding disk at the same time the tape dumper is streaming that same file onto tape ? Not too sure on how fast you think it should be backing up, but according to the specs the native sustained transfer rate is "up to" 165MB/min. If you devide 20000MB by 165MB/min you get 121 minutes (2 hours) which is pretty much exactly how long it is taking. http://www.certance.com/products/CertanceDrives/STD2401LW-S-TechSpec.html (this may not be the exact same drive, but the one I have is an IBM rebadged product that identifies itself as a Seagate drive, so it would be close to the URL above) ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk
