-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
Running Amanda 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 14.04, with a simple LT04 tape drive. I've found myself elected as the "tape backup-er" for three different (and not network connected machines). The tape drive is on one of the three (on my machine). I've made up an amanda profile for each of the three. Backups are done by replicating the desired data to a large portable raid array (10Tb), the raid is brought over to my place, I mount it, and back it up. Each of the machines has its own 'profile', and own set of tapes and label convention. Works fine. I just got a 4Tb single drive brought over to be dumped under one of the profiles. I've mounted it as a new disklist entry under the corresponding profile. If I try to dump directly, the drive can't keep up and the tape shoe-shines. So, I try to do a "amdump --no-taper <profile>" so the 4Tb drive gets dumped onto my holding area (which is 50% larger than the contents of the drive), to flush it later from the faster holding area. This runs for a while and estimates the amount to dump (much less than the holding area), and then it fails and bleats: localhost /fisher2 lev 0 FAILED [Skipping: new disk can't be dumped in degraded mode] [running amcheck against it is perfectly happy.] By this I interpret to mean that it simply won't use the taper for brand new disklist entries. Right? Is there a way to trick it? Like, unmount the disk leaving the directory, doing a "amdump", then remounting and doing a "amdump - --no-taper"? Seems kind of ugly, and I can't see why you can't "--no-taper" a brand new full dump. Or do I have to copy the 4Tb drive somewhere faster for this? Ugh. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWXg6zAAoJENy2YTBCU1mlpkoH/0eEN1AyxdRXiaUy2RcxM6eJ 1bglg/wDZtlv/ftCl+onWKQhuOJmls68l+SUsUBqSeqK5caV2iYQdXa0NHbVj/P9 VrQD9cNT0M/vEZNNk50IYvAlgs4qmg3NqccLyCVNpTszx6uMF411ssGre3Oqqg/P IhsWz56SiXOqsVuW2WFeCYQ45qdz4mTG3dXGyiiowFuFM4c/3FG9iuayohSVg/w5 0P3DjX0tf6aDJBwcSDZQDZyN1aKRzopU9l0tBO5w7fuRzegValjshso5UCj76so9 xKSwZcj7lroh44QAny9iFNt54CCz2aD43lLB0TkCEUiDo+qMLEmDMZk7Psedemg= =AYF2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
