On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:00:21AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Jon, > > amtapetype should terminate once it fill the disk. > > Jean-Louis
I didn't see any smiley there ;) so I'll just note that once amtapetype seemed to recognize the file driver I half-expected it to also see the EOF like taper does. jl > > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >Back to back posts to the list on amtapetype and the file:driver > >made me wonder, will amtapetype work with virtual tapes? Not > >that it would be of any benefit, just wondered if it would. > > > >Well, to my surprise, amtapetype does "seem to work" with vtapes. > >But ... > > > >It recognized the slot and "amanda tape" in the slot, > >refusing to go on. > >It could be forced to overwrite the "amanda tape" in the slot > >with the -f option. > >It did its compression test. > >It wrote its files to the virtual tape slot. > >And wrote and wrote and wrote. > > > >I.e. unlike amdump/amflush that appear to see a pseudo EOF > >when their writing reached the 14GB size listed in the > >tapetype definition (and the estimate, -e option), > >amtapetype never sees the EOF. Of course it is trying > >to figure out what that size limit is supposed to be, > >so maybe it is reasonable that it never got an EOF ;) > > > >Not sure which surprised me most, that it started and worked > >well, or that it did not end normally. > > > > > > >>> End of included message <<< -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
