Jean-Louis, thanks for the patch! I applied it when you sent it but had to wait to see if the system would cycle through past the "no-reuse" tape. It did so successfully and all is working fine now!
Thanks again! Regards, Gordon Mills -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Using no-reuse with vtapes I attached a bad version of the patch, Try this one instead. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > Changing tapecycle will not fix your problem because the chg-disk > changer script use it to set it's LASTSLOT. > > The use of chg-disk with 'no-reuse' is incompatible, but it could be > easily fix (attached patch): > - chg-disk must set its LASTSLOT from a changer configuration file. > > After that, you will have 2 possibilities: > set LASTSLOT to 22, create the slot directory and label it. > or > set LASTSLOT to 21 and tapecycle to 20. > > > Try the attached patch, the changer configuration filename is your > setting of changerfile with a ".conf" appended. > Add a "LASTSLOT=22" to the changer configuration file. > > Jean-Louis > > > Gordon J. Mills III wrote: >> I am having a problem using the no-reuse feature with vtapes. I have >> a tape that contains files from a machine that is going to be >> decommissioned. I want to save the last full backup of that machine. >> So I put no-reuse next to that tape in the tapelist file. The problem >> is that the next time the tape cycle comes around to that tape it >> acts like there is no available tape. It cycles through all the tapes >> and says "(expecting a new tape)" at the end. >> So the question is: how can I use the "no-reuse" feature? It seems >> that amanda has to have tapecycle number of tapes even if dumpcycle >> is set to a number lower than that. The relative section of my >> amanda.conf is below. >> This is on 2.5.0b1. >> >> dumpcycle 10 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle >> runspercycle 10 >> tapecycle 21 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation >> >> bumpsize 10 MB # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 >> -> 2 >> bumpdays 2 # minimum days at each level >> bumpmult 1.5 # threshold = bumpsize * (level-1)**bumpmult >> >> runtapes 1 # explained in WHATS.NEW >> tpchanger "chg-disk" # the tape-changer glue script, see >> TAPE.CHANGERS changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer" >> tapedev "file:/amandatapes/DailySet1/" # Linux @ tuck, important: >> norewinding >> # tapedev "/dev/nrst8" # or use the (no-rewind!) tape device >> directly rawtapedev "file:/amandatapes/DailySet1/" >> >> tapetype HARD-DISK # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes >> below) >> labelstr "^TAPE[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must >> match >> >> Regards, >> Gordon >> >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > >