Yes it ran for a quite long time. I added a print in the script see below. It will run over the night.
-- GG amtapetype -o length=400g -b 256k -f /dev/rmt/0n Applying heuristic check for compression. blocksize = 262144 blocks written = 1770 blocksize = 262144 blocks written = 1770 Wrote random (uncompressible) data at 7364998.0952381 bytes/sec Wrote fixed (compressible) data at 38666240 bytes/sec Compression: enabled Writing one file to fill the volume. -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: djmit...@gmail.com [mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] För Dustin J. Mitchell Skickat: den 20 maj 2010 17:44 Till: Gunnarsson, Gunnar Kopia: amanda-users@amanda.org Ämne: Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2 On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar <gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se> wrote: > Applying heuristic check for compression. > Wrote random (uncompressible) data at 7492244.64516129 bytes/sec Wrote > fixed (compressible) data at 35732243.6923077 bytes/sec > Compression: enabled > Writing one file to fill the volume. > File 1, block 6910315 > amtapetype: Wrote less than 1MB to the device: Error writing block: > Mysterious short write on tape device: Tried 32768, got 0 That's odd.. it looks like it wrote 6910315 blocks, yet when it multiplied that by the block size, it got something less than 1MB. Did this take a long time, or happen immediately? Can you add some print's around line 186 of amtapetype to print the blocksize and number of blocks? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
