Re: amverifyrun getting stuck
Hello, Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 08:12 +1300 schrieb Steve Wray: Hi there, My amanda backup scripts do an amverifyrun after every run. One of our backup sets is on a tape changer. Sorry for the questinon, but I also have a tape changer. How do you do the amverifyrun after the backup if the backup used 2 tapes? Do you have a special script for this or is this possible with amverifyrun by default? How can I check my tapes after a backup? I was thinking I can do this with a script grapping for the last used tapes in the disklist file. But if someone else know a better solution, please let me know. Thank you for every help. Recently, amverifyrun appears to have been getting 'stuck', verifying the same tape over and over again regardless of which tape was actually used in the last backup run. Most recently its become stuck on a tape which has not yet been used in amanda (labelled, never written to) resulting in some very amusing output... Any suggestions on how to unstick it? Thanks! Best regards Dominik Schips
Re: amverifyrun getting stuck
Dominik Schips wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 08:12 +1300 schrieb Steve Wray: Hi there, My amanda backup scripts do an amverifyrun after every run. One of our backup sets is on a tape changer. Sorry for the questinon, but I also have a tape changer. How do you do the amverifyrun after the backup if the backup used 2 tapes? It never uses 2 tapes. Do you have a special script for this or is this possible with amverifyrun by default? How can I check my tapes after a backup? I was thinking I can do this with a script grapping for the last used tapes in the disklist file. But if someone else know a better solution, please let me know. amverifyrun is supposed to 'know' which tape was used last based on the log files. Looking at the man page again though I have to say I am a little dubious. It seems awfuly lacking in clarity or, well, any information at all really. Thank you for every help. Recently, amverifyrun appears to have been getting 'stuck', verifying the same tape over and over again regardless of which tape was actually used in the last backup run. Most recently its become stuck on a tape which has not yet been used in amanda (labelled, never written to) resulting in some very amusing output... Any suggestions on how to unstick it? Thanks! Best regards Dominik Schips
Re: amverifyrun getting stuck
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:12, Steve Wray wrote: Dominik Schips wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 08:12 +1300 schrieb Steve Wray: Hi there, My amanda backup scripts do an amverifyrun after every run. One of our backup sets is on a tape changer. Sorry for the questinon, but I also have a tape changer. How do you do the amverifyrun after the backup if the backup used 2 tapes? It never uses 2 tapes. At your place maybe, but there is not a limit other than practical, to the number of tapes that can be set in runtapes. Do you have a special script for this or is this possible with amverifyrun by default? How can I check my tapes after a backup? I was thinking I can do this with a script grapping for the last used tapes in the disklist file. But if someone else know a better solution, please let me know. This is something I've not done. The only way (and I'd bet there is a better way) would be to grab the last 'runtapes' from the list, load the first one of those and scan forward until the tapes labeled date is the date last run. Then run the amverify on each tape in succession starting with that first date match. But I'd think there is a better way. Comment: since the amverify run is a full length pass over the written tape, it is not something I would do as a matter of habit since that will multiply the wear and tear on the changer and the tapes by at least 2, and possibly more times. I'd verify one run a week maybe, just to see developing problems. It does NOT compare the written data with the src data, only verifying that the tape is readable w/o errors. That said, I do it every night, BUT I'm using vtapes on a big hard drive, so the verify pass is essentially free under those conditions. If I was still using (spit) the old dds2 tapes I started with way back when, no way, the wear and tear isn't worth it. amverifyrun is supposed to 'know' which tape was used last based on the log files. Looking at the man page again though I have to say I am a little dubious. It seems awfuly lacking in clarity or, well, any information at all really. Thank you for every help. Recently, amverifyrun appears to have been getting 'stuck', verifying the same tape over and over again regardless of which tape was actually used in the last backup run. Most recently its become stuck on a tape which has not yet been used in amanda (labelled, never written to) resulting in some very amusing output... Any suggestions on how to unstick it? I don't recall that ever happening to me, so I have no ideas on this, sorry Dominik. Thanks! Best regards Dominik Schips -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: amverifyrun getting stuck
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:12, Steve Wray wrote: Dominik Schips wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 08:12 +1300 schrieb Steve Wray: Hi there, My amanda backup scripts do an amverifyrun after every run. One of our backup sets is on a tape changer. Sorry for the questinon, but I also have a tape changer. How do you do the amverifyrun after the backup if the backup used 2 tapes? It never uses 2 tapes. At your place maybe, but there is not a limit other than practical, to the number of tapes that can be set in runtapes. *sigh* ok then, interpret me as saying 'on our installation it never uses 2 tapes'. Thats what I meant, ie I can't offer advice as it never uses 2 tapes (for me).
Re: amverifyrun getting stuck
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 16:12, Steve Wray wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:12, Steve Wray wrote: Dominik Schips wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 08:12 +1300 schrieb Steve Wray: Hi there, My amanda backup scripts do an amverifyrun after every run. One of our backup sets is on a tape changer. Sorry for the questinon, but I also have a tape changer. How do you do the amverifyrun after the backup if the backup used 2 tapes? It never uses 2 tapes. At your place maybe, but there is not a limit other than practical, to the number of tapes that can be set in runtapes. *sigh* ok then, interpret me as saying 'on our installation it never uses 2 tapes'. Thats what I meant, ie I can't offer advice as it never uses 2 tapes (for me). Why the big sigh, anyway? You and I are fairly small fry in the amanda world I expect. My typical backup runs to about 7Gigs a 200GB drive has room for 21 vtapes, my /var partition and some swap thats only been used once or twice. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
