From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 13 8:59:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E2B15710 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:59:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id IAA01793 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:57:25 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199904131557.IAA01793@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DDS-2/DDS-3 drives In-Reply-To: <19990413123830.E74226@lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:38:30 +0930 >From: Greg Lehey >IIUC, amanda doesn't handle EOM correctly, which makes it less than >excellent. This could well be Yet Another Instance in which I demonstrate my level of clue-deficiency.... :-{ However: * I would have expected that handling EOM would be a driver issue, rather than an application (amanda, in this case) issue. Granted, the application would need to handle exceptional conditions (in general) "properly", and in the case of amanda, one of those is EOM. * It is my current understanding that in the event that the current tape isn't writable (any more), and *if* the amanda configuration permits the action, amanda will request that the tape changer load a new tape, and it will continue with that tape. If that fails, amanda will leave the backup image on the "holding disk," and send mail indicating the nature of what happened and what was done as a result. It isn't apparent to me what other behavior would be preferable, under the circumstances. I've been using amanda here since August, 1998 (before we had an auto-loader available; we did have a pair of DDS drives, so I used the pseudo-changer that allows more than one drive to act as a changer); it seems to be working reasonably well for us. I would use it at home, but one of amanda's (current) design points is that for each execution, it starts writing at the beginning of a tape: it does not append a given days' files to an already-written tape. Thus, I coudn't afford the media and the time to do backups as often as I can with my home-grown Perl script (writing to an Archive DDS drive witha 4-slot autoloader). Color me perplexed, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message