On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:10 pm, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:59:52AM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: > > Whenever Amanda has to roll over to a new tape and the first tape in > > the expected list is missing, the backups fail. For example, last > > night, the expected tapes were: > > > > C83166 > > C83259 > > C83170 > > > > The tape C83166 was not in the changer so my wrapper script loaded > > C83259, fired off amdump, and the backup started up fine. However, > > when the tape ran out, Amanda tried to load C83166 but couldn't find > > it and failed. C83170 was available but Amanda apparently did not > > try to load it. > > > > When amanda reported the "next 3 tapes amanda expects are:" > was C83170 within that group?
Yep: The next Amanda run should go onto tape C83166 or a new tape. The next Amanda run should go onto tape C83170 or a new tape. The next Amanda run should go onto tape C83257 or a new tape. > Also, was C83170 used more than 14 tapes ago? Yep, again. > I think unless at least the 2nd condition is met, > that amanda will not use a tape. Perhaps but, AFAIK, if the tape is more than one cycle old (in this case over seven days) it should be reusable. > > Is there a configuration option I can use to tell Amanda to try the > > next tape if the desired tape is not avaialble? > ... > > > > ---- from amanda.conf ---- > > dumpcycle 7 days > > runspercycle 6 > > tapecycle 14 tapes > > runtapes 3 > > ---- end ----- > > > > I actually have 19 tapes allocated for this backup. > > > > I'd say have several more available, but not labeled. > When you are about to encounter that situation, > label a new tape. Amanda will always take a new tape. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) > > -- Stephen Carville ------------------------------------------------------------------ Right wing socialists hate privacy as much as the left wing socialists hate guns.