On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Chris Marble wrote: - 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. -
Changing tapecycle to 10 did it, thanks! -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
