Re: Wrong tape / amdump question

2001-01-03 Thread John R. Jackson
>I'm running 2.4.2 on the drive host. Clients are running a mixture of 2.4.1 >and 2.4.2 > >Did I read somewhere that using a changer (including chg-manual) doesn't >work with cron? ... Changers, in general, work fine with cron. However, if you're using chg-manual, that's a special case because

RE: Wrong tape / amdump question

2001-01-03 Thread Shane T. Ferguson
I'm running 2.4.2 on the drive host. Clients are running a mixture of 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 Did I read somewhere that using a changer (including chg-manual) doesn't work with cron? The tape drive opens during this 'suspension' -- I guess it's waiting for the next tape and some sort of input that the ta

Re: Wrong tape / amdump question

2001-01-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 2, 2001, "Shane T. Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the wrong tape is in the drive, the dump suspends - it gets all the > estimates from the other servers but when I check amstatus, I get "wait for > dumping" for each filesystem (even after manually putting the correct tape > i

Re: Wrong tape / amdump question

2001-01-03 Thread Chris Karakas
Jens Bech Madsen wrote: > > One thing to note, though, is that Amanda doesn't do level > 0 dumps to disk. Only incrementals will be dumped to holding disk if > the wrong tape is detected. > This is not true. AMANDA _will_ do full backups to the holding disk, if the "reserve" parameter is set to

RE: Wrong tape / amdump question

2001-01-02 Thread Shane T. Ferguson
amcleanup. Once I re-ran amdump (with the right tape), everything worked fine. Shane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jens Bech Madsen Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 1:43 PM To: Amanda-Users Subject: Re: Wrong tape / amdump question "Sh