From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 27, 2009 22:34 > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:56:53PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > > > I suspect that part of my problem (probably a large part) is > > conceptual. We have plenty of tape and processing time and I was > > looking for a full backup on each amdump execution. I am not > > really interested in doing full and incremental backups but I am > > aware that this contrary to the "amanda" way of doing things. That > > being said, I do not really see the > > Not true, doing full backups every run is not uncommon.
That is good to hear. No if I could only figure out how to tell amanda that. > Have you determined that your tape changer script is functioning > properly? Look at amtape command and exercise that changer. > Make sure you can select specific slots/tapes; can advance one > slot; can advance one slot from the last position; can list the > tapes; can load a specific tape; etc. mtx and amtape seem to be working fine. > You got stuck on tape five because your tapecycle is 2. It must > use another tape before reusing tape five and for some reason > it isn't getting to another tape. That is why I question the > changer setup. What should tapecycle be set to? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com