Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Peter Kunst
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 11:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote: I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719 installed and I have no such file either. Woul

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 July 2006 11:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: >> On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719 >> > installed and I have no such file either. >> > >> > Would the

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 17:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I hesitate to say they are better. But perhaps more popular > > are the scripts based on using the mtx command, either chg-mtx > > or more commonly the newer chg-zd-mtx. > > Tha

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
On Friday 21 July 2006 17:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I hesitate to say they are better. But perhaps more popular > are the scripts based on using the mtx command, either chg-mtx > or more commonly the newer chg-zd-mtx. Thanks. I switched to chg-zd-mtx. Doing a couple of amtape tests, however the o

RE: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Scott R. Burns
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:58 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: tapestatus file growing huge On Friday 21 July 2006 10:34, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:46:51AM +0100, Rodrigo

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 16:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > From the low volume of comments about chg-scsi on this list > > it seems few sites are using that changer. Thus our unfamiliarity > > with its config and log files. Sorry. > > >

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
On Friday 21 July 2006 16:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: > From the low volume of comments about chg-scsi on this list > it seems few sites are using that changer. Thus our unfamiliarity > with its config and log files. Sorry. > > Of course, as few people post to the list except with problems, > maybe th

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719 installed > > and I have no such file either. > > > > Would the OP please supply the full path to this file? > > The

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote: > I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719 installed > and I have no such file either. > > Would the OP please supply the full path to this file? The filename is tapestatus and is created in the config directory (e.g., where ama

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 July 2006 10:34, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:46:51AM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: >> Today the server disk went out of space because the tapestatus file >> grew over several GiGs. It seems to be related with upgrading amanda >> to 2.5.0p2. The contents are lines lik

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:46:51AM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > > Today the server disk went out of space because the tapestatus file grew over > several GiGs. It seems to be related with upgrading amanda to 2.5.0p2. The > contents are lines like "tape status = ...". Any clues? > I'm unfami

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
More details; the head of the tapestatus: $ head -n 30 tapestatus 20060720 ISR003 Write Error Counters Page Total Errors Corrected = 0 Total Times E. Processed = 0 Total Bytes Processed = 0 Total Unrecoverable Errors = 0 Read Error Counter

tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Today the server disk went out of space because the tapestatus file grew over several GiGs. It seems to be related with upgrading amanda to 2.5.0p2. The contents are lines like "tape status = ...". Any clues? Cheers, Rodrigo -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *** W