Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-23 Thread Lucio
Check to see if some problem has truncated your tapelist file. If a problem (e.g., no space left on a device) prevents the tapelist from being created or some other problem truncated the file, then you could expect to see a problem like this. Check to see if there have been any drive

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-23 Thread Lucio
Or looking at a file with the same name but not the one as configured in amanda.conf?) I can't tell how stupid I feel just now. The one above was the reason. Thanks everybody. Lucio.

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:38, Lucio wrote: Check to see if some problem has truncated your tapelist file. If a problem (e.g., no space left on a device) prevents the tapelist from being created or some other problem truncated the file, then you could expect to see a problem like

RE: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-23 Thread donald . ritchey
: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next? Check to see if some problem has truncated your tapelist file. If a problem (e.g., no space left on a device) prevents the tapelist from being created or some other problem

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:29, Lucio wrote: Or looking at a file with the same name but not the one as configured in amanda.conf?) I can't tell how stupid I feel just now. The one above was the reason. Thanks everybody. Lucio. You probably have lot of company in that, I think at one

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Lucio
Lucio: Until all the tapes have been used at least once, Amanda had no idea of which tape to use next. All the tapes have already been used at least twice, and during the first two cycles (more or less) Amanda had been telling me what tape number to put in the unit. Then a cloudy day it

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:23, Lucio wrote: Are you telling me that this is a known problem of 2.4.3? It's a production system, I'm afraid it's quite a risk to update a rpm by compiling from source (especially for an amanda newbie like me). I'm going to do this only if I have no other

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:07, Lucio wrote: Lucio: Until all the tapes have been used at least once, Amanda had no idea of which tape to use next. All the tapes have already been used at least twice, and during the first two cycles (more or less) Amanda had been telling me what tape

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:04:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: We did at one time have someone subscribed here that was doing the redhat rpm's, and he would speak up anytime we started to get down on the rpm vs the tarballs, but he has not made any posts here in many months now that

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:56:10AM -0400, Matt Hyclak enlightened us: If anyone is interested in this, you can get it from (sorry it wraps): http://www.math.ohiou.edu/mirror/casit/contrib/9/SRPMS/amanda-2.4.4p1-2mrh3.src.rpm Oops, that should be

RE: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread donald . ritchey
] Subject: Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next? Lucio: Until all the tapes have been used at least once, Amanda had no idea of which tape to use next. All the tapes have already been used at least twice, and during the first two cycles (more or less) Amanda had been telling me what

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see if some problem has truncated your tapelist file. If a problem (e.g., no space left on a device) prevents the tapelist from being created or some other problem truncated the file, then you could expect to see a problem like this. Check to see if there

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:56, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:04:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: We did at one time have someone subscribed here that was doing the redhat rpm's, and he would speak up anytime we started to get down on the rpm vs the tarballs, but he

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Paul, I commited your patch with a small change. In write_tapelist, it return 1 instead of calling error(), all caller handle the return code correctly. Jean-Louis On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:04:19PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see if some problem has

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 14:45, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:07:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: FWIW, I have made packages of 2.4.4-p1 that are pretty much the RH packages with a couple tweaks to the .spec file. Namely, there are 2 variables at the top of the

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:54:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: Q: Does this automaticly set the ownerships and perms in the built rpm? Amanda should be built by a non-priviledged user, then installed by root. Otherwise the perms get fubared. I ask because I've never done it this

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 21:19, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:54:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: Q: Does this automaticly set the ownerships and perms in the built rpm? Amanda should be built by a non-priviledged user, then installed by root. Otherwise the

Re: How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-21 Thread Lucio
These dumps were to tape Daily006. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. I've just the same problem, but my amanda.conf looks like this cut here dumpcycle 0 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 5 days # the number of amdump runs in

[UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-21 Thread Lucio
When I wrote the last message I forgot to specify the following: This morning Amanda reported the last backup on Tape2, and then asked for a new tape only, instead of Tape3 or a new tape. I put Tape3 in the unit anyway and amcheck stopped complaining for the wrong tape. Amanda is going to use

Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-21 Thread Lucio
BTW, it's Amanda 2.4.3 on RH9 What am I missing? Possibly the upgrade to 2.4.4-p1? Are you telling me that this is a known problem of 2.4.3? It's a production system, I'm afraid it's quite a risk to update a rpm by compiling from source (especially for an amanda newbie like me). I'm

RE: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-21 Thread donald . ritchey
once. Don -Original Message- From: Lucio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next? When I wrote the last message I forgot to specify the following: This morning Amanda reported the last

How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-20 Thread Mads Pultz
Hi. I have the following settings. dumpcycle 3 days runspercycle 3 days tapecycle 8 tapes runtapes 1 tapedev /dev/nst0 From the backup report that is sent to me every day everything seems to be fine. However, there is one thing that bugs me. The report begins like this These dumps were to

Re: How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mads Pultz wrote: I have the following settings. dumpcycle 3 days runspercycle 3 days tapecycle 8 tapes runtapes 1 tapedev /dev/nst0 From the backup report that is sent to me every day everything seems to be fine. However, there is one thing that bugs me. The report begins like this These

Re: How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-20 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, October 20, 2003 20:39:45 +0200 Mads Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have the following settings. dumpcycle 3 days runspercycle 3 days tapecycle 8 tapes runtapes 1 tapedev /dev/nst0 From the backup report that is sent to me every day everything seems to be

Re: How to control which tape is next?

2003-10-20 Thread Mads Pultz
Hi. Thanks for all your replies. I'm not through my tapecycle yet so that is probably the reason. Regards Mads On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 21:34, Frank Smith wrote: --On Monday, October 20, 2003 20:39:45 +0200 Mads Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have the following settings.