Stephen Carville wrote: > > One of my tapes did not come back from offsite in time for today's > backup (Some winidiot sent if off for four weeks instead of one) so > today's backup failed. How can I get amanda to just skip that tape > and go on to the next one in the sequence? When I try amcheck, amanda > thinks all of the tapes in the changer are active tapes and will not > write to them. Even if I load the next tape in the sequence mnaually, > amcheck rejects it. How can I tell which tapes it will write too? > > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 5 > tapecycle 15 tapes > runtapes 2 > > So far, backups have only needed one tape per run so it seems to me > that tapes from two weeks ago should no longer be active but amanda > thinks they are.
You need to decrease tapecycle. That says how many tapes you've got in rotation. You could lower it to 10 which would say that it can't rewrite a tape for 2 weeks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.
