Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Chris Hoogendyk
<hoogen...@bio.umass.edu> wrote:
I don't get it. Why is Amanda refusing to use the new tapes (or tape 3)?
See the note in this manpage:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-taperscan.7.html
Thanks, Dustin!
I never encountered that behavior before, because my other setups have a
longer tapecycle than the library can hold. So, for example, I would
have 35 tapes with a tapecycle of, say, 30. But, since the library could
only hold 15 tapes, I would never have an eligible tape that had been
written on when I also had a brand new labeled tape in, since I would
add those at the end of the cycle.
In this case, I had 7 tapes and a tapecycle of 6. So, one unlabeled tape
would not get written, because there was an eligible already written
tape. Then, adding 4 new tapes and leaving the tapecycle at 6, none of
those were being considered.
So, I just now edited my amanda.conf and changed the tapecycle to 11.
That should mean that none of the already written tapes is eligible
until it has used all of the new tapes.
I'll see for sure this weekend.
The algorithm just seems a bit weird. I never thought that
fast-searchable would jump over the new tapes, especially since they are
marked reuse. I always assumed it would check the tapes in order until
it found one that was suitable.
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