Re: Forcing write to tape (or cleaning up tapelist)?

2002-10-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:59:49AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > 2. The day just before you want to give her a tape that is not old > enough, you execute the command "amrmtape DailySet1 sb-prod07". And > then just insert this tape. Amanda will use it without complaints. To avoid the problem with

Re: Forcing write to tape (or cleaning up tapelist)?

2002-10-30 Thread Paul T. Root
You can also cheat and edit the tapelist file. Paul Bijnens wrote: Charlie Bebber wrote: I guess during the initial tape cycle, the tapes got run in the wrong order. Specifically, we have a tape, sb-prod07, that was in the wrong slot and now every subsequent cycle expects that tape to be the

Re: Forcing write to tape (or cleaning up tapelist)?

2002-10-30 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Sorry to correct you, but method 2 will not work. At the moment you do the amrmtape the number of tapes seen by amanda will drop bellow runtapes and amanda will insist on using a "new tape" the next run. You'll have to reduce the tapecycle at least by one to make it work. Christoph Paul Bijnen

Re: Forcing write to tape (or cleaning up tapelist)?

2002-10-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
Charlie Bebber wrote: I guess during the initial tape cycle, the tapes got run in the wrong order. Specifically, we have a tape, sb-prod07, that was in the wrong slot and now every subsequent cycle expects that tape to be the next in sequence. How can I straighten this out? The more I look into

Forcing write to tape (or cleaning up tapelist)?

2002-10-29 Thread Charlie Bebber
I guess during the initial tape cycle, the tapes got run in the wrong order. Specifically, we have a tape, sb-prod07, that was in the wrong slot and now every subsequent cycle expects that tape to be the next in sequence. How can I straighten this out? The more I look into it, the more disorgani