On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 01:09:48PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 17 September 2021 12:09:55 Jon LaBadie wrote:
While investigating a tape issue (separate thread)
I investigated the "allow-split" parameter of
amanda.conf. The man page says it defaults to "true"
and my configuration has n
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:28:12 +
Debra S Baddorf wrote:
> Empty space is still owned by the vtape manager.
To pick a nit, the vtape manager and any other applications that use
that file system. Otherwise, yes. Well stated.
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> On Sep 17, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Charles Curley
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:55:09 -0400
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching
>> to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room
>> left on the current tape.
>
> I wouldn't worry
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:09:48 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> gene@coyote:~$ sudo grep allow /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf
> maxdumps 1 # allowing one per host makes sense to me
> # skip-full - skip the disk when a level 0 is due, to allow full
> backups
>
> define dumptype global
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:55:09 -0400
Jon LaBadie wrote:
> I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching
> to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room
> left on the current tape.
I wouldn't worry about it. Unlike physical tapes, vtapes all pull
storage out of the same pool
On Friday 17 September 2021 12:09:55 Jon LaBadie wrote:
> While investigating a tape issue (separate thread)
> I investigated the "allow-split" parameter of
> amanda.conf. The man page says it defaults to "true"
> and my configuration has never set it.
>
> Thinking perhaps the default has changed
On Friday 17 September 2021 11:55:09 Jon LaBadie wrote:
> I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching
> to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room
> left on the current tape.
>
> Here is the relevant section from yesterday.
>
> USAGE BY TAPE:
>Label
While investigating a tape issue (separate thread)
I investigated the "allow-split" parameter of
amanda.conf. The man page says it defaults to "true"
and my configuration has never set it.
Thinking perhaps the default has changed I tried
setting allow-split several ways and places. amcheck
alwa
I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching
to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room
left on the current tape.
Here is the relevant section from yesterday.
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % DLEs Parts
DS1-010 0:08
