How does Amanda assume which tape to use?
I now have 4 tapes to work with. Since I only have a single tape unit and
I am limited to the amount of tapes I can use (please don't ask) - I force
amanda to do a full dump on sat and sun and then i leave the
tape drive empty and let amanda run her weekely incrementals
to the holding disk space.
I know my tapecycle # should match the number of tapes I am using.
Even if I change my tapecycle number to 4, I still have to label and
force a re-label of each tape.
When I run amcheck amanda suggests a tape to use or tells me to put in a
new tape.
amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amcheck daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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/dump/amanda: 11444533 KB disk space available, using 10932533 KB.
ERROR: /dev/rmt/0cbn: no tape online.
(expecting tape daily111 or a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test.
Server check took 0.002 seconds.
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
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Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.124 seconds, 0 problems found.
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1)
amanda@sundev1 [daily] %
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My current amanda.conf
tapecycle 8 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
labelstr "^daily[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must
match
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Here is some other output that has prompted me to ask about how Amanda
assumes what tape to use:
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amanda@sundev1 [amanda] % amadmin daily tape
The next Amanda run should go onto tape daily111 or a new tape.
amanda@sundev1 [amanda] %
amanda@sundev1 [amanda] % amflush daily
Scanning /dump/amanda...
20001108: found non-empty Amanda directory.
20001109: found non-empty Amanda directory.
20001110: found non-empty Amanda directory.
20001112: found non-empty Amanda directory.
Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter:
A. 20001108
B. 20001109
C. 20001110
D. 20001112
Select directories to flush [A..D]: [ALL] ALL
Flushing dumps in 20001108, 20001109, 20001110, 20001112,
today: 20001112
to tape drive /dev/rmt/0cbn.
Expecting tape daily111 or a new tape. (The last dumps were to tape
daily118)
Are you sure you want to do this? y
Running in background, you can log off now.
You'll get mail when amflush is finished.
root@sundev1:adm/amanda/daily# ls -lt tape*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 amanda amanda 214 Nov 12 15:40 tapelist
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 190 Nov 7 01:15 tapelist.yesterday
-rw-rw-r-- 1 amanda amanda 166 Nov 1 18:29 tapelist~
root@sundev1:adm/amanda/daily# more tapelist
20001112 daily112 reuse
20001107 daily118 reuse
20001106 daily117 reuse
20001101 daily02 reuse
20001030 daily01 reuse
20001023 daily555 reuse
20001019 daily333 reuse
20001019 daily222 reuse
20001017 daily111 reuse
root@sundev1:adm/amanda/daily# more tapelist.yesterday
20001107 daily118 reuse
20001106 daily117 reuse
20001101 daily02 reuse
20001030 daily01 reuse
20001023 daily555 reuse
20001019 daily333 reuse
20001019 daily222 reuse
20001017 daily111 reuse
root@sundev1:adm/amanda/daily#
Thanks for your feedback.
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