On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 04:27:25PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote: > Hi ! > > As you all veterans of the list know I am using the vtape file-to-disk > tape driver and a ftp share mounted as file system by lufs. I am using > the chg-disk virtual changer.
Good to mention in new threads as my little gray cells don't retain much. > > tapesize is enough, even so is the holding disk. The backup gets > completely dumped to the holding disk but some parts of the DLE are > omitted because of timeouts and a temporary very sluggish ftp access. > (I'll include the amreport below .) > > My question is: > Are there any possibilities to advise amanda to retry flushing (to the > same tape ..) (as when I start flushing by hand next day I get the Same tape, partially successful, absolutely not. Same tape where nothing got on to it, manipulate the tapelist manually, or maybe with amadmin. > report it succeeds more than most of the time) ? I have doubled the > timeout parameter given in the example amanda.conf without a consequence > . I do assume, that my ftp connection transfer rate at 1st is fast and > the ETA amanda gets is wrong because the transfer rate drops during the > data flush ( might be a ftp characteristic "start with maximum > availlable and throttle down to a reasonable rate"). Amanda times out (@ > Jon, you were right !) > > Does a speed parameter set in amanda.conf (to 50 Kbytes ) have affect > on the data transfer rate when using tape-type Hard-disk or will it be > ignored ? My last manual amflush transfer report showed me " ... > Avg Tp Write Rate ( k/s) 67.8 121.0 66.4 ..." (prev. and last lines > omitted) and was successfull. > To the best of my knowledge, the timeouts and network usage only deal with dumping, not taping/flushing. The tape speed in the tapetype stanza is information the admin might have gotten from amtapetype, but is not used by amanda. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
