Thanks,, Frank. How to force it to run in downgrade mode ?
Allen Liu IP Application Design and Engineering Bell Canada (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Allen Liu --- work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Repost: ? holding disk contents > --On Friday, February 27, 2004 11:31:11 -0500 Allen Liu --- work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just repost because I dodn't get any respose. > > Is it true that amdump won't go on if tape device is not ready ? > > I haven't used chg-manual, but I assume it sits there waiting for > you to put in a tape and say its ready. > However, if you have adequate holdingdisk space, it could still > do incrementals (and fulls if reserve isn't set too low) to disk, > although perhaps it is waiting on the manual input before deciding > on whether to run in normal or degraded mode. > > > Frank > > > > > Thanks > > > > Allen Liu > > > > IP Application Design and Engineering > > Bell Canada > > (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Allen Liu --- work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:01 PM > > Subject: ? holding disk contents > > > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I ma trying to see what holding disk contents look like. > >> My changer script is chg-manual. The drive didn't have tape in. > >> When I ran amdump, it asked for putting tape in. at this moment I check my > >> holding disk directory, it has timestamp but no contents. Does it suppose > > to > >> have some data in holding disk ? is this situation so-callled downgrade > > mode > >> ? > >> > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Allen Liu > >> > >> IP Application Design and Engineering > >> Bell Canada > >> (613) 781-7368, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> 1240 -160 Elgin St, Ottawa,ON, K2P 2C4 > >> > >> > > > > -- > Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 > Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501 >
