On Monday 28 February 2005 19:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:25:00PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 28 February 2005 16:32, Fairbank, Bob wrote: >> >Normally, AMANDA uses one tape per run. With a tape changer (even >> > the chg-manual one), the number of tapes per run may be set >> > higher for extra capacity. This is an upper limit on the number >> > of tapes. AMANDA uses only as much tape as it needs. AMANDA does >> > not yet do overflow from one tape to another. If it hits end of >> > tape (or any other error) while writing an image, that tape is >> > unmounted, the next one is loaded, and the image starts over >> > from the beginning. This sequence continues if the image cannot >> > fit on a tape. >> >> This should be written to say that the individual tarball writing >> that failed from EOT error, will be restarted from byte 1 on the >> next tape if there is one available, not that the whole backup >> will be restarted. > >If the image was not being taped from the holding disk, but instead >directly taped was it was created, then that DLE would have to be >restarted.
I would have assumed that also Jon, but a message posted here in just that last week or so makes me wonder about that. Of course with runtapes = 1, then presumably it would have retried that dle the next evening, but has anyone actually checked? -- 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) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
