"too many taper retries"

2002-05-02 Thread fil krohnengold
[amanda 2.4.2p2 on solaris 2.6] Howdy - I've been handed a bunch (11) of < 35G file systems that I need to start backing up. I have two 15xDLT changers with two drives in each at my disposal. The file systems contain a lot of comressed data so I'm not using compression - just ufsdump. [

"too many taper retries"

2002-05-02 Thread fil krohnengold
/20020430/diglib1._AMNH_congo_SERVICE_photos_4x5a.0: too many taper retries, leaving file on disk WARNING amflush Could not rmdir /amanda-holding/d5/20020430. Check for cruft. I'm using DLT IV tapes in a DLT7000 drive. Some light, anyone? -fil -- fil krohnengold systems administrator

Too many taper retries

2002-09-11 Thread Alvin Ko
0 FAILED [too many taper retries] ... NOTES: planner: Adding new disk localhost:/boot. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/usr. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/export/home. planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home. planner: Adding new disk

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
e: a new tape, a new > tape, a new tape. > >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > localhost /export/home lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] >... >NOTES: > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/boot. > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/usr. > planner: Adding new disk l

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-11 Thread Frank Smith
xt 3 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new tape, a new > tape. > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > localhost /export/home lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] > ... > NOTES: > ... > taper: tape Tape-01 kb 12013824 fm 7 writing file: No space left on d

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
to insert backup tape into slot 1. When amdump completed, I got >> the following report. >>--- >>These dumps were to tapes Tape-01, Tape-02, Tape-03. >>The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to used are: a new tape, a new >> tape, a new tape. >> >>FAILURE AND STRAN

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-12 Thread Mozzi
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 April 2020 05:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I just noted that my clock was foobar, set for something in april > 2020! As I have a daily rdate, is there any way to ascertain that > the rdate request to the server returns a sane result before it > blindly resets e

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 September 2002 02:37, Mozzi wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 28 April 2020 05:33, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> I just noted that my clock was foobar, set for something in >> april 2020! As I have a daily rdate, is there any way to >> ascertain that the rdate request to the serv

taperalgo largestfit can cause "too many taper retries"

2003-06-17 Thread Sven Rudolph
left on device] INFO taper retrying foo:/data.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space left on device] FAIL driver foo /data 0 20030615 [too many taper retries] The taping is tried two times, and then it failed immediately after the second try. The "too many" limit seems to be hardcoded as

Re: taperalgo largestfit can cause "too many taper retries"

2003-06-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Sven Rudolph wrote: Some approaches: a) increase the "too many taper retries" limit (or make it configurable): ... b) avoid this by never trying to write anything when a tape is full ... c) don't count taper retries that happen after the tape is full (according to tapetype en