On Monday 26 August 2019 23:55:31 Olivier wrote:
> Gene Heskett writes:
> > Generally speaking, only because the disc is random access.
>
> But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial
> accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have been assigned,
> it is writting f
Il 27/08/19 05:55, Olivier ha scritto:
> But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial
> accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have been assigned,
> it is writting files the size of one Amanda's chunk. In fact, that would
> be worth a study: the disk usage for vtap
When I upgraded one of my servers to Amanda 3.5.1, I had to run amdump from a script (out of cron),
because . . .
Now it doesn't send out an email report when it is finished.
What is my workaround? I've looked through the amdump and amanda man pages. I don't see an option to
tell it, "please D
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 15:15:57 -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> When I upgraded one of my servers to Amanda 3.5.1, I had to run
> amdump from a script (out of cron), because . . .
>
> Now it doesn't send out an email report when it is finished.
Did you switch to using the script at the same time
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:44:02AM +0200, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Il 27/08/19 05:55, Olivier ha scritto:
>
> > But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial
> > accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have been assigned,
> > it is writting files the size of one Amanda
Thanks, Nathan, that's a good guide for troubleshooting this issue. However, it leaves out one
crucial item: sysadmin blind spots. ;-) Looking through my emails and the dates, I realized Amanda
had hung for several days and I hadn't noticed it because of other problems I've been focused on . . .
Jon LaBadie writes:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:44:02AM +0200, Diego Zuccato wrote:
>> Il 27/08/19 05:55, Olivier ha scritto:
>>
>> > But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial
>> > accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have been assigned,
>> > it is writting
Diego Zuccato writes:
> Il 27/08/19 05:55, Olivier ha scritto:
>
>> But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial
>> accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have been assigned,
>> it is writting files the size of one Amanda's chunk. In fact, that would
>> be worth a
Gene Heskett writes:
> On Monday 26 August 2019 23:55:31 Olivier wrote:
>
>> Gene Heskett writes:
>> > Generally speaking, only because the disc is random access.
>>
>> But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial
>> accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have be
