I'm using amanda-2.4.4p3 with the file driver and chg-disk changer for vtapes.
Sometimes a dump fails and driver retries: driver: client /some/path 1 [dump to tape failed, will try again] and then it fails again and retries again, and this repeats until I kill the amanda processes. This last time this happened I caught it after driver/dumper/taper had created about 200 0 length dump files in the vtape directory. The client machine it was trying to dump from was offline. It had gone offline sometime after the planner stage and so the planner had included it. There was no indication that this retrying was ever going to stop. I have been using amanda for years with tapes and I never experienced this behaviour before so it came as quite a surprise. Is there any way to limit this retrying by driver? Thanks, -- Todd Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Research & High-Performance Computing Support ABB 132, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M1 phone: voice: 905-525-9140 ext 22920 fax: 905-528-3773
