Hmm, that seems to go counter to what I believe Amanda wants to do. During a
normal amdump session it will not write to tape 10 if it expects tape 9, so
why do this during a flush? Hmm.
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Jens Bech Madsen wrote:
> Joshua E Warchol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Needless to say, it was a good newyear so I'm not all there right now. I
> > put in tape 10 in our rotation, while amadmin was expecting tape 9. It
> > said "Expecting tape 9 or new tape". It then said "do you want to flush
> > these images to tape?" I answered yes. It then happily overwrote tape
> > 10. I know amanda checks for this, it doesn't overwrite tapes. Did it get
> > confused because tape 10 was the tape that it would dump to this evening
> > normally? Any ideas?
>
> Amanda just asks for the next tape in the tapelist. Other tapes will
> work just as well as long as they don't contain "essential" data
> required for a restore.
>
> If tape 10 contained backups necessary for a restore Amanda wouldn't
> have overwritten it.
>
> At least this is how I understand the mechanism.
>
> /Jens
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> Jens Bech Madsen
> The Stibo Group, Denmark
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Joshua Warchol
UNIX Systems Administrator
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