Henning Sprang wrote:
>
> I have a problem with amandas tapes.
> 5 days ago i got the last mail with a successful backup message:
>
> --- snip ---
> These dumps were to tape net-daily4.
> Tonight's dumps should go onto 1 tape: a new tape.
> --- snap ---
>
> the day after that, the tape was changed to the one one number higher,
> but the message was:
>
> --- snip ---
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape net-daily5].
> *** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK.
My guess would be that a couple of tapes in the net-daily sequence got
skipped. Since Amanda hasn't written to a tapecycle worth of them yet
it doesn't want to overwrite a newer tape with data.
Check the contents of the tapelist file and you should see what tapes
it's used and what got skipped.
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