A while back one of my small older drives containing vtapes failed. I replaced it and its twin with larger drives. I moved the still good vtapes from the good twin to the new drives, created empty vtapes for the lost backups from the crashed drive, and added a good number of new vtapes.
However, none of the previously unused vtapes are being used by amanda and I can not figure out why. Here are relevant entries from my current tape list. 20171227025501 DS1-018 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1 ... 20170705025501 DS1-019 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1 20170627205502 DS1-009 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1 ... 20170618085502 DS1-209 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1 20170618025502 DS1-208 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1 DS1-018 is the vtape it used last night, 019 will be used tonight. DS1-208 is at the bottom of the list and amanda is skipping all 40 tapes between it and DS1-009. There are 3 ways to check what tapes will be used. However their results differ. $ amanda amadmin DS1 tape The next Amanda should go onto tape DS1-208 or a new tape. tape DS1-209 or a new tape. tape DS1-210 or a new tape. $ amanda amtape DS1 taper slot 19: volume 'DS1-019' Will write to volume 'DS1-019' in slot 19. $ amcheck DS1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda/Holding': 293752 MB disk space available, using 293652 MB slot 19: volume 'DS1-019' Will write to volume 'DS1-019' in slot 19. [ looks the same as amtape ] Any clues as to why the 40+ tapes are not being used? Why do amadmin and amtape/amcheck use different algorithms when looking up the next tape(s) to be used? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)