On Saturday 04 September 2004 01:43, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:59:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 03 September 2004 23:20, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:04:33PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: >> >> According to the docs, with amflush you can select "all" to >> >> flush all dumps waiting in the holding area. Does it prompt >> >> you for a new tape after each dump or will it try to put it all >> >> the dumps on one tape? >> > >> >Fits as much on a tape as possible, not necessarily >> >all the DLE's from one dump consecutively (sp?). >> > >> >If runtapes parameter == 1, it will leave any DLE's >> >that did not fit for the another flush. If runtapes > 1 >> >it will use more than one tape as necessary. >> >> The last time that situation came up here Jon, having runtapes > 1 >> didn't help. Due to the lack of a working ioctl for rewind in >> amanda or chg-scsi, it failed. But thats nothing new. Apparently >> I have the only system in the world that from amanda-2.4.1 and >> RH6.2 through FC2 and whatever the last amanda-2.4.4/5b/px is, and >> 3 mobo/cpu replacements for where the drive lived, still cannot >> rewind a tape with anything but mt. Am I nuts? Rhetorical, >> please don't anwser that! > >Works here regularly. Recently I was so negligent I ran my >abundant holding disks out of space by never replacing worn >out tapes. Amanda stopped working, no place to put the data. > >When I finally labeled some new tapes and did an amflush, >it took all 4 tapes it could and still left a lot in the >holding disks. Next night it autoflushed during the regular >amdump and took 2 tapes.
Are you using chg-scsi? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
