Okay, so I was had :-) Not the first time, won't be the last...
I didn't even notice the 6.2 on the announcement. I read it as 2.6.
Guess I'm turning dyslexic in my old age?
Given that, my questions about the flush settings still stands for
2.6. Any thoughts?
Thanks much,
Bruce.
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Bruce Thompson wrote:
This is great news for April Fool's Day!
On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Hello,
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
6.2.
<snip>
Here's a list of the changes for release 6.2 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.
Amanda configuration file changes
amanda.conf changes
flush-threshold-dumped
flush-threshold-scheduled
taperflush
device_property
I'm really looking forward to experimenting with these new config
options. Besides the examples, is there a further discussion
somewhere on these options? I'm looking to see if I can avoid a
situation I seem to find myself in periodically.
Sometimes, I'll end up with a run that exceeds the amount that
runtapes permits. In these cases what ends up happening is that I
end up writing part of a big DLE onto the vtapes that remain until
runtapes is exhausted. At that point, the DLE is left in holding
and nothing is lost, it will get written out when I flush (manually
or auto). If I could have avoided writing those vtapes at the end
then I'd not have so much wasted space (the vtapes written at the
end of the run are effectively wasted). What I'd like to be able to
do is to specify that writing shall not occur until it is known for
certain that the DLE can fit in the remaining vtapes. it seems to
me that these new settings will allow me to do this, but without a
lot of experimentation I'm not certain how best to configure this.
In addition to wasting vtape space, it also makes recovery more
complicated if I use amrecover. The tapes that got part of the DLE
are still recorded as holding that DLE and so when I attempt to
recover I need to delete those tapes first or the recover will fail
in a most ugly fashion.
Any thoughts, suggestions, etc. gratefully received!
Cheers,
Bruce.