Thanks Frank, I only have 1 tape at the moment. I am just doing it for testing. I wanted amanda to only backup once every week, every sat, 11:00pm. It's ok with me if amanda will overwrite that same tape.
I am going to post my amanda.conf again tonight since I am in the office right now. Frank Smith writes: > --On Thursday, September 19, 2002 09:48:22 -0500 Neil > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This was the report I got last night during my amdump test. What can you >> say about it? >> I tried doing an "mt erase 0" but looks like that the previous label is >> still there. I even tried su amanda -c "amlabel -f Daily Daily01", it >> forces it but I got a feeling that the old label is still >> What would be the command to totally erase everything on my tape, >> including the labels? > > amlabel -f does rewrite the label no matter what label used to be there. > It looks like Amanda took the Daily01 label and did a backup to it. > It also appears that might have been the only tape you labeled and > Amanda is looking for another tape matching labelstr in your config, so > it was looking for Daily001. If you had already labeled a Daily02 it > would have asked for that. > If you were expecting Amanda to keep writing to the same tape, it > won't until you've completed tapecycle number of runs. > > Frank >> >> ------------------------REPORT----------- >> From: User Amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: 19 Sep 2002, 02:06:09 AM >> Subject: Daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR September 19, 2002 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- ---- >> These dumps were to tape Daily01. >> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Daily001. >> >> STATISTICS: >> Total Full Daily >> -------- -------- -------- >> Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:04 >> Run Time (hrs:min) 0:51 >> Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:46 0:46 0:00 >> Output Size (meg) 2062.2 2061.9 0.4 >> Original Size (meg) 2062.2 2061.9 0.4 >> Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- (level:#disks >> ...) >> Filesystems Dumped 3 2 1 (1:1) >> Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 761.2 763.1 49.5 >> Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:47 0:46 0:00 >> Tape Size (meg) 2062.3 2061.9 0.4 >> Tape Used (%) 106.9 106.8 0.0 (level:#disks >> ...) >> Filesystems Taped 3 2 1 (1:1) >> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 756.4 757.4 102.5 >> >> NOTES: >> planner: buko.restricted.dyndns.org /var 20020919 0 [dumps too big, full >> dump >> delayed] >> taper: tape Daily01 kb 2111840 fm 3 [OK] >> >> DUMP SUMMARY: >> DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS >> HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s >> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ >> buko.restric / 0 44480 44512 -- 0:361246.1 0:56 796.4 >> buko.restric /usr 0 20668802066912 -- 45:31 756.8 45:32 756.6 >> buko.restric /var 1 360 416 -- 0:07 49.5 0:04 102.5 >> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3b4) >> > > > > -- > Frank Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Administrator Voice: > 512-374-4673 > Hoover's Online Fax: > 512-374-4501 >
