combined amflush amdump

Hi! I have quite small number of quite huge and expensive tapes (6 * LTO 100GB). My plan is to let amdump write level 1-n dumps to the holding space on weekdays and insert the next tape only during the weekend dump which would have enough space to flush the holding space *and* to run the

Re: dumper fails: data write: Invalid argument

Hi! John R Jackson writes: It's a Solaris 2.5.1 box. I didn't specify any chunksize, so my thinking was that the default of 1 Gb is fine. John It should have been. You might set it explicitly just to be John sure. I'll try that. John You might also check the ulimit values (and maybe the

Re: dumper fails: data write: Invalid argument

Hi! Does anybody have a clue, what could be the reason for the dumper failing to write large level 0 files? The amdump file just says: driver: result time 6459.975 from dumper3: \ FAILED 03-4 [data write: Invalid argument] John What OS are you using on the tape server (holding disk)

dumper fails: data write: Invalid argument

Hi! Does anybody have a clue, what could be the reason for the dumper failing to write large level 0 files? The amdump file just says: driver: result time 6459.975 from dumper3: \ FAILED 03-4 [data write: Invalid argument] This happens for roughly 10% of our areas being dumped,