Re: [Amanda-users] Question corrupt amanda backup / tape speed / etc..help!

2008-10-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:39 PM, rory_f [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We managed to up our speed of dumping and writing a whole lot by using a holding disk, which is great. However, the data we wrote, around 245gb, failed a amcheckdump and i couldnt, therefore, not amrestore anything. What was

[Amanda-users] Question corrupt amanda backup / tape speed / etc..help!

2008-10-28 Thread rory_f
This is an edited version of a previous post Hi, We managed to up our speed of dumping and writing a whole lot by using a holding disk, which is great. However, the data we wrote, around 245gb, failed a amcheckdump and i couldnt, therefore, not amrestore anything. After the

Re: [Amanda-users] Question corrupt amanda backup / tape speed / etc..help!

2008-10-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amanda writes data to tape as quickly as the tape drive will allow. The tapespeed is not currently used. The data may be in local cache, explaining some of the high speed. I don't know SATA-1 rates off the top of my head to know if that's too fast. Whatever goes on, data corruption should not