Re: Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:59:48PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote: > > > >>BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, > >>configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning > >>

Re: Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Hansen
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote: BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning several tapes. I have a robot changer, LTO1 tapes (100Gb capacity) and I use

Re: Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-31 Thread Ian Turner
Tom, I've looked into this, and it is indeed a bug -- errors writing tape labels are not treated as robustly as errors at other times. I'll write up a patch for this, but it may not help you unless and until you upgrade, because taper has been completely rewritten since the last community relea

Re: Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Hansen
Ian Turner wrote: Tom, What is runtapes set to? --Ian The runtapes parameter is set to 25. -Tom On Wednesday 31 October 2007 00:31:53 Tom Hansen wrote: BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesyst

Re: Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote: > > BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, > configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning > several tapes. I have a robot changer, LTO1 tapes (100Gb capacity) and > I used: > >ta

Re: Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-31 Thread Ian Turner
Tom, What is runtapes set to? --Ian On Wednesday 31 October 2007 00:31:53 Tom Hansen wrote: > BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, > configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning > several tapes. I have a robot changer, LTO1 tapes (100Gb capac

Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-30 Thread Tom Hansen
BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning several tapes. I have a robot changer, LTO1 tapes (100Gb capacity) and I used: tape_splitsize 3Gb fallback_splitsize 256m (An unrelated issue: I coul