Hey paul, that's the culprit I guess. This is the tapetype which
I'm using in amanda.conf:
define tapetype HP-DAT {
comment "DAT tape drives"
# data provided by Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
length 1930 mbytes
filemark 111 kbytes
speed 468 kbytes
}
Btw, how do I get these details for my tape? What I use is
HP-DAT DDS3 (C5708A) 12/24 GB tape.
Thanks!
Rohit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bijnens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: more doubts
> Rohit wrote:
> > From: "Jon LaBadie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >> I don't think your assumption is correct. I think runspercycle
> >> "ignores" the units part. So it was thinking you had a total of 5
> >> runs per dumpcycle.
> >
> >
> > I read it somewhere it this mailing list that runspercycle does
> > compute based on units specified. Also, amadmin balance command
> > showed "estimated 35 runs per dumpcycle" in the last line when I had
> > runspercycle as 5 weeks. When I removed 'weeks' from that line --
> > then it showed correct value -- 5 runs per dumpcycle.
>
> runspercycle does indeed take a unit if specified.
>
> The program doesn't even check if a unit is appropriate for the
> config, so you could just as well say:
> tapecycle 20 bps
>
> or specify in tapetype:
>
> speed 400000 weeks
>
> instead of (rounded) 2800 kps. Really funny/confusing.
>
>
>
> The possible units are:
>
> keytab_t numb_keytable[] = {
> { "B", MULT1 },
> { "BPS", MULT1 },
> { "BYTE", MULT1 },
> { "BYTES", MULT1 },
> { "DAY", MULT1 },
> { "DAYS", MULT1 },
> { "INF", INFINITY },
> { "K", MULT1K },
> { "KB", MULT1K },
> { "KBPS", MULT1K },
> { "KBYTE", MULT1K },
> { "KBYTES", MULT1K },
> { "KILOBYTE", MULT1K },
> { "KILOBYTES", MULT1K },
> { "KPS", MULT1K },
> { "M", MULT1M },
> { "MB", MULT1M },
> { "MBPS", MULT1M },
> { "MBYTE", MULT1M },
> { "MBYTES", MULT1M },
> { "MEG", MULT1M },
> { "MEGABYTE", MULT1M },
> { "MEGABYTES", MULT1M },
> { "G", MULT1G },
> { "GB", MULT1G },
> { "GBPS", MULT1G },
> { "GBYTE", MULT1G },
> { "GBYTES", MULT1G },
> { "GIG", MULT1G },
> { "GIGABYTE", MULT1G },
> { "GIGABYTES", MULT1G },
> { "MPS", MULT1M },
> { "TAPE", MULT1 },
> { "TAPES", MULT1 },
> { "WEEK", MULT7 },
> { "WEEKS", MULT7 },
> { NULL, IDENT }
> };
>
>
> > Attached to this email is snippet of amdump log file. Amanda
> > identified total size of approx 25 GB to be backed up. Whereas by
> > tape could could only take in approx 19 GB (though it is 12/24 GB
>
>
> From your logfiles:
>
> > DELAYING DUMPS IF NEEDED, total_size 25877861, tape length 1976320
> > mark 111
>
>
> It seems amanda is asuming your tapelength is only 1_976_320 Kbytes,
> that only 1.9 Gbyte, not 19 Gyte. The above resembles like a DDS2
> drive with 90 meter tapes to me.
>
> Have a look at "tapetype ..." and the corresponding "define tapetype
> ..." in your amanda.conf. Maybe you have a duplicate define?
>
>
>
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