I'm not too sure what's going on - it takes about 10 days to run the backup. Here's the results from the run that started on 12/27 and the results from amstatus on the backup that started running yesterday. I checked S3, and it used up a little over 5000 "tapes". Is there a time / amount limit?
Hostname: ubuntu Org : music Config : music Date : December 27, 2008 The dumps were flushed to tape musicSet1-0010. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [Could not find a tape to use]. No dumps are left in the holding disk. 0M The next tape Amanda expects to use is: 1 new tape. The next new tape already labelled is: musicSet1-0010. STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. -------- -------- -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 251:14 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) 250:39 250:39 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 56035.2 56035.2 0.0 Tape Used (%) 56.0 56.0 0.0 Filesystems Taped 1 1 0 Chunks Taped 1 1 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 63.6 63.6 -- STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. -------- -------- -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 251:14 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) 250:39 250:39 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 56035.2 56035.2 0.0 Tape Used (%) 56.0 56.0 0.0 Filesystems Taped 1 1 0 Chunks Taped 1 1 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 63.6 63.6 -- taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0002 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: slot 3:read label `musicSet1-0003', date `20081201190003'. taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0003 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: slot 4:read label `musicSet1-0004', date `20081202190002'. taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0004 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: slot 5:read label `musicSet1-0005', date `20081204190003'. taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0005 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: slot 6:read label `musicSet1-0006', date `20081205190002'. taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0006 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: slot 7:read label `musicSet1-0007', date `20081206190002'. taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0007 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: slot 13:read label `musicSet1-0013', date `20081209190003'. taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0013 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: slot 14:read label `musicSet1-0014', date `20081210190002'. taper: label "musicSet1-0014" matches labelstr but it is not listed in the tapelist file. taper: slot 1:read label `musicSet1-0001', date `20081211190002'. taper: Tape with label musicSet1-0001 is still active and cannot be overwritten. taper: tape musicSet1-0010 kb 57380001 fm 1 [OK] DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- ------------------------------------- ------------- localhost -rive/Music 0 56035 -- FLUSH 15038: 63.6 (brought to you by Amanda version 2.6.1b2) I ran amlabel -f on all the tapes after this ran, but if I run amoverview music Warning: no log files found for tape musicSet1-0014 written 2009-01-07 19:00:03 date 01 host disk 07 Here's my disklist localhost /samba/bigdrive/Music comp-user-tar and amanda.conf org "music" # your organization name for reports mailto "mlb" # space separated list of operators at your site dumpcycle 1 week # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 7 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (1 week * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) tapecycle 14 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation # 1 week (dumpcycle) times 5 tapes per week (just # the weekdays) plus a few to handle errors that # need amflush and so we do not overwrite the full # backups performed at the beginning of the previous # cycle runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump tpchanger "chg-multi" # the tape-changer glue script tapedev "S3:" # the no-rewind tape device to be used device_property "S3_ACCESS_KEY" "My Access Key" device_property "S3_SECRET_KEY" "My Secret Key" device_property "S3_SSL" "false" changerfile "changer.conf" tapetype HARDDISK # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below) holdingdisk hd1 { directory "/samba/smalldrive/dumps/music" use -1000Mb } holdingdisk hd2 { directory "/samba/bigdrive/dumps/music" use -1000 Mb } label_new_tapes "musicSet1-%%%%" # Enable auto labeling labelstr "^musicSet1-[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes mus$ dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted. ctimeout 30 # maximum number of seconds that amcheck waits # for each client host etimeout 300 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates. define dumptype global { comment "Global definitions" auth "bsdtcp" } define dumptype gui-base { global program "GNUTAR" comment "gui base dumptype dumped with tar" compress none index yes } define tapetype HARDDISK { comment "Virtual Tapes" length 100000 mbytes } includefile "advanced.conf" includefile "/var/lib/amanda/template.d/dumptypes" includefile "tapetypes" Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 m...@imparisystems.com www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901