Marc Muehlfeld wrote: > > Hello, > > fedora schrieb: >> Questions: >> 1) "No writable valid tape found". What does it mean? > > >> There was no tape in your drive/changer or it was not writeable (write >> protected, broken tape, no tape with valid label,...) >> > sdfadfadfa > >> 2) Do I need to run amflush? I found out a folder in holding disk dated >> 23 >> July 2007. > > If the folder isn't empty, you have to run amflush, if you want to have > your > data on tape. > > > >> 3) "can't switch to incremental dump". What does it mean? (causing failed >> for the dump summary "domin11 -/lib/mysql 0 FAILED......." ) > > Amanda can't do a full dump on your tape, because of to less space. And > without having a full dump, Amanda can't do an incremental dump. This > could > happen if you only use one tape and the estimated size is compressed (if > you > use compression) bigger than your tape. Or you use more tapes and you > don't > use splitting, ... > > > >> 4) "cannot overwrite active tape DailySet1*". What does it mean? > > Seams you have too less tapes configured for one dumpcycle. Dumpcycle is > the > number of of days in a backup cycle (e.g. one week). Amanda tries to do a > full > backup at least this often (e.g. once per week). When you have e.g. > runspercycle=7 (how often you let amanda do amdump in dumpcycle) and a > tapecycle of 6, then amanda had to overwrite the first tape again to do > the > backup on the last day. And this is what the message means. You can't > overwrite the tape, because you could never do a restore then, because of > the > overwritten first tape. Amanda prevent you doing that. > > # man amanda.conf > - > tapecycle > This is calculated by multiplying the number of amdump runs per dump cycle > (runspercycle parameter) times the number of tapes used per run (runtapes > parameter). Typically two to four times this calculated number of tapes > are in > rotation. > > > >> 5) "taper: changer problem: 11 file:/backup/amanda/dumps/tape11". What >> does >> it mean? > > Somethings wrong with your changer. :-) Any more information? > > > >> 6) For big/small estimate, What is the different between them? As I know >> level 0 is full backup, level 1 is incremental and what about level 2? > > I'm not sure about the meaning of big/small estimate. > Level 0 is full > Level 1 is incremental incremental since last level 0 > Level 2 is incremental incremental since last level 1 > ... > > > >> 7) Lastly, all my client servers got N/A result for the taper stats >> accept >> domain11. Why? > Amanda clients running? Firewalls? Any messages inside the logs? > > > > Marc > > > -- > Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung Systemadministration) > Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr. Klein und Dr. Rost > Lochhamer Str. 29 - D-82152 Martinsried > Telefon: +49(0)89/895578-0 - Fax: +49(0)89/895578-78 > http://www.medizinische-genetik.de > >
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