What to do when tape is full?

2002-06-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Another thing I don't quite understand, is what's the best thing to do when I get *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-06-23 Thread Toralf Lund
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:39:55AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: On 19/04 2002 16:18 Dave Sherohman wrote: You can do this manually by not changing tapes (or leaving the tape drive empty) tonight, which will cause all of tonight's dumps to stay on the holding disk (provided it's big

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-24 Thread Toralf Lund
On 23/04 2002 17:38 Frank Smith wrote: --On Tuesday, April 23, 2002 15:26:33 +0200 Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/04 2002 14:52 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Yes, maybe a good decision. (Although the purchase of new tapes and the management of all of them do add up to a

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Toralf Lund
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:39:55AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: On 19/04 2002 16:18 Dave Sherohman wrote: You can do this manually by not changing tapes (or leaving the tape drive empty) tonight, which will cause all of tonight's dumps to stay on the holding disk (provided it's big

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 1:30pm, Toralf Lund wrote Wouldn't append support be easy to implement? Seems to me that most of the code must be there already (since Amanda writes several dumps to one tape in its normal mode of operation.) Lack of append support is a design decision, AIUI. The

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Toralf Lund
On 23/04 2002 14:52 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 1:30pm, Toralf Lund wrote Wouldn't append support be easy to implement? Seems to me that most of the code must be there already (since Amanda writes several dumps to one tape in its normal mode of operation.) Lack

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Darin Dugan
At 08:26 AM 4/23/2002, Toralf Lund wrote: [...] I'd really prefer an auto flush mode to append support (I can't see any need for both). That should be easy to write as well, and I can't see any problems associated with it, in fact, I think it would increase the safety quite a bit. From

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 9:09am, Darin Dugan wrote At 08:26 AM 4/23/2002, Toralf Lund wrote: [...] I'd really prefer an auto flush mode to append support (I can't see any need for both). That should be easy to write as well, and I can't see any problems associated with it, in fact, I think

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, April 23, 2002 08:52:51 -0400 Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 1:30pm, Toralf Lund wrote Wouldn't append support be easy to implement? Seems to me that most of the code must be there already (since Amanda writes several dumps to one tape in

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Niall O Broin
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: Or leave the tape out of the drive and let it go to to the holding disk, then amflush whenever you have a full tapes worth. Will that work ? When I use amflush I get given a list of days on which amdump ran without a tpe for

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 5:44pm, Niall O Broin wrote On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: Or leave the tape out of the drive and let it go to to the holding disk, then amflush whenever you have a full tapes worth. Will that work ? When I use amflush I get given a

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:39:55AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: On 19/04 2002 16:18 Dave Sherohman wrote: You can do this manually by not changing tapes (or leaving the tape drive empty) tonight, which will cause all of tonight's dumps to stay on the holding disk (provided it's big enough),

Re: What to do when tape is full?

2002-04-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:25:02AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: Well, obviously, the simple answer is run amflush, which is what I did the last time I got this. The problem with this was that the flush required a tape of its own, which was not what I wanted; what I really had in mind was to