Re: How to flush a wayward dump

2010-02-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: > Oops, yes, I did an amrmtape in an effort to force amdump to use the virtual > tape that was in the incomplete dump, rather than overwrite the next one in > the rotation.  I used to do that with physical tapes, but perhaps I forgot > that

Re: How to flush a wayward dump

2010-02-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:26 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: I waited until the network issues cleared up and started a new dump on a new virtual tape.  It appears the amcleanup had deleted it from the tapelist, so I manually re-entered it with the p

Re: How to flush a wayward dump

2010-02-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:26 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: > I waited until the network issues cleared up and started a new dump on a new > virtual tape.  It appears the amcleanup had deleted it from the tapelist, so > I manually re-entered it with the presumed date that it was last used. I'm not

How to flush a wayward dump

2010-02-23 Thread James Smallacombe
A stange thing happened to me over the past few days. I started a remote dump of about 66GB, which normally takes about 30-35 hours. However, I noticed on Sunday that it was crawling at less than 200kbps, apparently due to some temporary network issues. I killed the amdump process and did