fedora schrieb: > Actually I am using tapeless. I made HDD as virtual tape (tapetype > HARD-DISK). The tape was writable (drwxrwx---), I think it could be broken > tape because I found "slot 13: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes)" when > amcheck. How do I recover the broken tape or have to recreate a new tape?
Label the tape again. > I cant run amflush and it sent me email as error like this "*** A TAPE > ERROR > OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found]" Then you need one more writeable tape. > here is my amanda.conf settings: runtapes 1 use 60000 Mb (holdingdisk) of > 1.1T HDD. I don't think the compression size is bigger than tape. Can u > guys suggest me what should I do? Run multiple tapes with splitting? I've > no idea how to do splitting. Pls advice. > > here is my amanda.conf settings: > dumpcycle 14 days > #runspercycle 20 (commented) > tapecycle 14 tapes > bumpsize 20 Mb > maxdumpsize -1 First of all you should have more (v)tapes. If you haven't set runspercycle, then it's the same than dumpcycle. Also you have 14 tapes in rotation. That's not a good idea. Maybe one dump doesn't fit on one tape or you do a not planed backup. Then you have the problem that amanda don't have a writable tape, because she had to overwrite one out of the dumpcycle. Allways have more tapes than you require for your regular backup plan. I suggest for your current configuration at least tapecycle=17 tapes. Just to have some tapes left. To configure splitting, you have at first to set runtapes>1 and then you have to configure tape_splitsize for your (global) dumptype. Here I use 60GB vtapes and a splitsize of 3072M. 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