Re: virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi John, It always works for me. I found a bug, it randomly (not that random) take the value of the tapetype length or the device max-volume-usage property. In my case, it always use the value of the tapetype length, in your case it always take the value of the device max-volume-usage proper

Re: virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-25 Thread John G. Heim
But that same man page also says, that for the vfs device, "This device supports the ENFORCE_MAX_VOLUME_USAGE property. Default value is true." Furthermore, the man page says that if ENFORCE_MAX_VOLUME_USAGE is false, the volumes expand "without limit". But that's not what is happening. Th

Re: virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda-devices MAX_VOLUME_USAGE (read-write) On devices that support it, this property will limit the total amount of data written to a volume; attempts to write beyond this point will cause the device to simulate "out of space." Zero m

Re: virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-25 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'll have to look at the amanda-devices page for the exceptions. But I can tell you that while amanda is skipping some level 1 dumps on me, because of calculated size, and I am using vtapes. Amanda is telling me that its filled the tape and then keeping things in the holding area. I suspect that

virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-25 Thread John G. Heim
Last week I asked a few questions about virtual tape size. Well, I wouldn't say I resolved them but I think I have one clue. One of the things I asked about is the meaning of the "length" parameter for a tape definition. I had set it to 25G for my virtual tapes but amanda was writing 38G to e