On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> wrote: > When a large DLE doesn't tape all the split parts > before running out of tapes, could the subsequent > flush (amflush or autoflush) pick up where the > original taping left off? > > I just had a large DLE (23 3GB parts) fail on > the last part by just 800MB. On the subsequent > amdump the DLE autoflushed the entire 23 parts > where only one part was needed.
Amanda has historically avoided this for, as I understand it, reliability reasons. Once the dump fails during one run, it's in the catalog as a failed run and can't easily be "extended" into a successful run. That said, the multi-taper support now handles switching dumps from one in-progress tape to another, so maybe the reliability reasons are gone now? At any rate, this would be pretty difficult to implement, but it's a cool idea! Dusitn -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
