amcheck knocks tape device offline with SCSI Error 70000

2009-12-23 Thread Fran Fabrizio
I'm in the process of upgrading from 2.5.0p2 to 2.6.1p2 and from an SAIT drive to an LTO-4 drive on the backup server (CentOS 5.4, 64-bit). This is the second time I've seen amcheck knock my tape drive offline. Here's the scenario that led to the problem: I successfully ran an amdump

Re: amcheck knocks tape device offline with SCSI Error 70000

2009-12-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Your SCSI HBA ran into a failure on the SCSI bus, and went through its usual recovery steps - try to reset the failed target, try to abort, offline the device, try to reset the failed bus, and try to reset the failed HBA. It looks like it stopped after the third step, leaving your /dev/st1

Re: The Return of the README

2009-12-23 Thread Chander Kant
In attached version: I scanned the list for comments after Charles' posting, and I think I got everything in this version. Overall, I got rid of redundant/unnecessary stuff, cleaned up some language, and added some things that were missing. I would also suggest that we make this file

Re: A Windows client question

2009-12-23 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
We don't check or manipulate the archive bit of the file. We check the modified time of the file with respect to last backup (full or incremental) to decide if the file should be included in the incremental backup or not. This is tracked in a MySQL catalog on the client Paddy On Tue, Dec 22,