{"id":1359,"date":"2009-11-25T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T04:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2009-11-25T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T04:50:04","slug":"quibbles-the-maddening-shortfall-of-adv_file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/quibbles-the-maddening-shortfall-of-adv_file\/","title":{"rendered":"Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written hang until you clear up space, because as we know savesets in progress can’t be moved from one device to another:<\/p>\n

\"Savesets<\/a><\/p>\n

Honestly, what makes me really angry (I’m talking Marvin the Martian<\/a> really angry here) is that if a tape device <\/em>fills and another tape of the same pool is currently mounted, NetWorker will continue to write the saveset on the next available device:<\/p>\n

\"Saveset<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s more, if it fills and there’s a drive that currently does have a tape mounted, NetWorker will mount a new tape in that drive and continue the backup in preference to dismounting the full tape and reloading a volume in the current drive.<\/p>\n

There’s an expression for the behavioural discrepancy here: That sucks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If anyone wonders why I say VTLs shouldn’t need to exist, but I still go and recommend them and use them, that’s your number one reason<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[102,333,668,856,980,1101],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","category-quibbles","tag-adv_file","tag-disk-backup","tag-nsrmmd","tag-saveset","tag-tape","tag-vtl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t