Hi John, > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 19:13 > An: Jörn Rübel > Betreff: Re: Problems with amflush > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:51:51AM +0200, Jörn Rübel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i've got a problem with amflush. I got my backup from > tuesday (yesterday) on the holdingdisk (/dump/amanda/<date>) > but not on tape. when i run amflush, the following error occurred: > > > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape > DailySet1-02]. > > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > > Run amflush again to flush them to tape. > > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-01. > > > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > > amflush: ERROR Cannot flush without tape. Try again. > > > > > > STATISTICS: > > Total Full Daily > > -------- -------- -------- > > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 > > Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00 > > Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 > > Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- > > Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0 > > Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- -- > > > > Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 > > Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > Filesystems Taped 0 0 0 > > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- > > > > > > DUMP SUMMARY: > > DUMPER STATS > TAPER STATS > > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS > KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > > -------------------------- > --------------------------------- ------------ > > host1.dom -ta/host/etc NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host1.dom -s/home.nis NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host1.dom -ta/host/log NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host1.dom /etc NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host1.dom -b/tripwire NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host2.dom -ta/host/etc NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host2.dom -s/home.nis NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host2.dom -ta/host/log NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host2.dom /etc NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host2.dom -b/tripwire NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host3.dom -ta/host/etc NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host3.dom -s/home.nis NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host3.dom -ta/host/log NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host3.dom /etc NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > host3.dom -b/tripwire NO FILE TO FLUSH > ----------------------------- > > > > (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2) > > > > How can i tell amanda to use the tape DailySet1-02 to flush > the last backup on the tape from tuesday? > > > > Two things: > > 1) Are you sure there are files there to be flushed? > From the report above "NO FILE TO FLUSH" I wonder. >
my holdingdisk contains the files i want to backup. > Maybe it is just an empty, dated directory, and even if you > use a tape that amanda wants, it will "waste" that tape usage > by thinking it used it but have nothing to write to the tape. > > 2) Amanda wants to use tape 01, you want it to use 02. > Do you only have 2 tapes in circulation? No, there are 5 tapes for one week (monday-friday, no backup on saturday and sunday) > > If you really want to destroy what is on tape 02 and its > various index files and use it immediately, try doing a two > step series, first "amrmtape" the tape which will remove it > and what is on it from amanda's records, then "amlabel -f" > the tape again. Then amanda will accept it as a new tape. This works fine. But today i got another problem: after amflush amanda expects the tape 01 for monday and not 04 for thursday. How can i fix this? Thanks for your help. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) Regards Jörn