Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi Paul! Paul Bijnens wrote: ... The problem here is that when you had a real tape error, and then try to flush o a new tape, then amanda refuses to put that one tape, because it got an error last time? Not good. So how you do see if you got a real error or just EOT. Explain me, because I s

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi Paul! Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-02-23 14:18, Peter Mueller wrote: Did you specify "taperalgo largestfit" in the amanda.conf? Or any other? I will check that, probably not, because I dont remember this parameter. Is was missing, which means "first" - I changed this to "smallest

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:31:06PM +0100, Paul Bijnens enlightened us: > >Paul Bijnens wrote: > >>When there is only one image to choose from, Amanda will take that one, > >>even if it will probably not fit. Changing that will make many other > >>users of Amanda unhappy, e.g. those using hardware

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 14:18, Peter Mueller wrote: Did you specify "taperalgo largestfit" in the amanda.conf? Or any other? I will check that, probably not, because I dont remember this parameter. Is was missing, which means "first" - I changed this to "smallest" to give the 2rd and 3rd level ima

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 14:03, Peter Mueller wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: When there is only one image to choose from, Amanda will take that one, even if it will probably not fit. Changing that will make many other users of Amanda unhappy, e.g. those using hardware compression because their tape length is

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi again! Did you specify "taperalgo largestfit" in the amanda.conf? Or any other? I will check that, probably not, because I dont remember this parameter. Is was missing, which means "first" - I changed this to "smallest" to give the 2rd and 3rd level images a chance to get thru .. I t

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi Paul! Thanks for the answer! Paul Bijnens wrote: ... What version of amanda is that? Amanda-2.4.4p3 Did you specify "taperalgo largestfit" in the amanda.conf? Or any other? I will check that, probably not, because I dont remember this parameter. How many "runtapes" do you have?

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 11:05, Peter Mueller wrote: It happened again, that a "disk" grew over the lenght of a tape, and so its backup got stuck on the holding disk. And as it is all the time it happened when i was out of office for some days... I knew its my concern as the sysadmin to split it into sma

Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi! It happened again, that a "disk" grew over the lenght of a tape, and so its backup got stuck on the holding disk. And as it is all the time it happened when i was out of office for some days... I knew its my concern as the sysadmin to split it into smaller pieces ... But it would be "nice