On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:38:59PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > > You know you have a DLE that is too big to tape and that amanda > > > > does not handle it well. Isn't it time to stop wasting time > > > > and tape and split the DLE? > > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > Ah, I'm sorry! I should not assume that amanda can do it's own math. I > > > must sit down with a calculator every night and do my own estimates and > > > make this all work? > > > Jon, this is a fairly serious problem with amanda. Why are you blaming > > > the > > > reporter instead of trying to fix the problem? > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:14:16PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > No, I was commenting on the futility of trying again something that failed > > once unexpectedly, you knew it was going to fail again, and have known from > > 5 years of amanda experience that that particular situation would always > > fail. > > THAT was already done. Several days ago. What I didn't stop to do was > delete the amount to flush because I assumed amanda would do the math and > realize it couldn't back it up and then discard it. I didn't expect taper > to blindly attempt something guaranteed to fail.
Discard a perfectly valid dump? Possibly the one and only copy of some data? It still could be used by a SysAdmin in a number of ways. For example, it could be manually taped or stored in some manner; it could be used for amanda restore/recovery from the holding disk. I wouldn't assume, nor want, amanda to discard it under the conditions you encountered. How to deal with the unexpected situation should be the SA's decision. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
