Hello Toomas, I'd thought degraded meant a performance loss but the data still moved to tape. If degraded means no tape, files left in holding partition then what is the term for moving to tape directly ?
On another note, to follow up, or ask again on a note I posted a few days ago... Last night my jukebox should have moved back to the lowest number slot with a valid tape, from the highest number slot. ie, amanda #1 needed to move from NEWTONL09 tape in slot 9 to NEWTONL01 tape in slot 1 and amanda # 2 should have moved from NEWTONR09 in slot 9 to NEWTONR05 in slot 5 (where slots 1-4 are being saved for the Saturday only Amanda # 3 doing always-full with yet another tape naming scheme). Anyway, this is the 2nd time we failed to move the tape to a lower slot number, I will include the amdump mail below. -- from amdump email -- *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label NEWTONL01 or new tape not found in rack]. 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: NEWTONL01. -- end email inclusion -- Last time this occured I run amcheck which found the tape and then amflush ran correctly. This time I ran only amflush and the tape was found and the flush ran correctly. humm, details. Solaris 8, Amanda 2.4.2p2 with chg-zd-mtx from 2.4.3, MTX 1.2.16rel, tape drive is an LTO, jukeboxes are SUN Storedge 9, ie HP C7145 thanks, Brian > Hi! > > > Since this left /amanda/work as unavailable I'd have expected amanda > > to have run in degraded mode writing directly to the tape drive, > > however amanda reported that there was no more room in the work area > > and exited without performing any dumps at all. > > Isn't the term 'degraded mode' used in the situation exactly opposite > to yours, i.e. when the tape is not available but holding disk is then > Amanda tries to put as much of stuff as possible on the holding disk? > > I still think, though, that in your situation dumps should have gone > directly to tape. > -- > Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it. >