Ok I'm confused then. If you have a list of entries in your list how do you tell amanda what entries go on what tape if you have a autoloader? Also will it just prompt you to put another tape in if you are using a single HP DAT drive?
--- Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 01:18, Danny Ybarra > wrote: > >I'm new to amanda but I read that amanda now spans > >multiple tapes. How do you set that up on a Dell > 132T > >LTO Autoloader? I also want to use that feature on > a > >regular single HP DAT drive. > > > Amanda can use more than one tape, however it cannot > span a single > disklist entry to two or more tapes. Each disklist > entry must be > smaller than 1 tape. > > I'm watching amanda use 2 tapes here, and just saw > it switch to the > next tape. Unforch, the file it failed on was over > half a tape, so > it wasted about 1.5 gigs in changing the tapes. > Looks like I'll need > to re-arrange that entry into 2 or 3 to make it into > smaller pieces. > I'm seeing, in the status reports, that amanda seems > to be ignoreing > my dumporder "STSTSTST", as its often been seen to > do a 70 meg DLE, a > 600Mb DLE, then a 2.1Gb DLE and a 1.1Gb DLE, in that > order while > filling up a teeny 4Gb tape which wound up with: > > dumped : 12 7721415k 7503717k > (102.90%) ( 22.21%) > wait for writing: 8 3018755k 2801057k > (107.77%) ( 8.68%) > wait to flush : 0 0k 0k > (100.00%) ( 0.00%) > writing to tape : 1 2296810k 2296810k > (100.00%) ( 6.61%) > failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( > 0.00%) ( 0.00%) > taped : 3 2405850k 2405850k > (100.00%) ( 6.92%) > tape 1 : 3 2405850k 2405850k > DailySet1-28 > tape 2 : 0 0k 0k > DailySet1-01 > > which says I'll have to run a flush in the morning > as its going to EOT > the second tape with quite a bit left in /dumps. > 3018755k+2296810k > will be about a 1.6Gb overflow, and my indice saver > will fail with > EOT. > > Suggested change to planner algorythm: When > runtapes is >1, juggle > the order to achieve a best fit within the tapetypes > capacity as > entered in amanda.conf, overriding the 'dumporder' > specified, setting > up a seperate list for each allowed tape. > > And even greater modifcation would be to write that > amount of data, > then change tapes even without hitting EOT, thereby > saving the time > and wear on the drive it wastes in writing till EOT > is encountered > before doing the tape change. In this case it would > have saved about > an 1 hr & 9 mins, or used that time to put about > another gigabyte of > smaller DLE's on the first tape used tonight. > > Just my $0.02. That, and another buck, might get > you a cuppa most > places :-) > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M > 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV > hillbilly > Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this > message > by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights > reserved. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
