On 04/01/18 12:59 PM, Ned Danieley wrote:
>
> I'm using
>
> taperalgo largestfit
>
> which I assume means that amanda will write to tape the largest DLE
> available. I have 'runtapes' set to 2, and occasionally I'll see amanda
> move on to the second tape when the first tape is reporting around 80%
> full.
> I'm dumping almost 200 DLE, so it seems like there ought to be some DLEs
> that would fit in the remaining 20%. is there any way to find out (after
> the fact) what DLEs were in the queue? I've looked at the taper debug file
> but it just seems to have a list of each DLE as it is written.
Not easily, you can parse the amdump.<TIMESTAMP> file
Make a copy of amdump.<TIMESTAMP>
Remove all lines after it sent the command to the taper
Run amstatus on that modified file
What was the size of the dle that failed to be written to the first tape?
>
> I'm using LTO6 tapes, so I should have about 2.5 TB to work with. I know
> about the ability to split DLEs, but I'm not ready to take that step.
You should try.
Jean-Louis
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