>amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20010330 label noemix-daily05 (active tape)
>amcheck-server: fatal slot 6: Loading Storage Element 6 into Data
>Transfer Element...mtx:
>Cleaning Cartridge Installed and Ejected
>ERROR: label noemix-daily01 or new tape not found in rack
> (expecting tape noemix-daily01 or a new tape)
My guess is the changer you have is not prepared to deal with a cleaning
cart, although I'm just guessing. I haven't followed all the mtx traffic
that's been going on here the last couple of months.
You might want to look at the archives and get the latest changer that
someone (sorry, have forgotten the name for the moment) was working on.
>The second question I have deals with my configuration. I want a full
>backup once a week with weekday incrementals ...
Why? It is very un-Amanda to force it into doing full dumps on specific
days. Is there a reason you don't want it to spread them out through
the week?
>... After reading the amanda
>chapter in Unix Backup & Recovery, the author ...
That would be me. You actually read that drivel? :-)
>recommends adding another
>tape to avoid writing over the last full dump. ...
What I meant was, you want tapecycle to be larger than dumpcycle. If they
are equal and something bad happens, you'll need a tape to amflush to,
but that tape is likely to have the last full dump of one of your file
systems and so you'll be overwriting vital data. Obviously, making
tapecycle less than dumpcycle is vastly worse.
>... Also, do I really need the cleaning tape in slot 6?
>I would rather have another writeable tape available and just clean the
>drive manually every so often.
That sounds like a good idea to me. You can certainly use the extra
real tape slot. And it will probably fix your problem at the top of
this letter as a fringe benefit :-).
Given 6 tapes, I'd recommend setting dumpcycle to 5. There is nothing
magic about those numbers. As humans, we tend to think in nice units,
like a week. But as long as the data fits, Amanda will be perfectly happy
to work with an "odd" cycle that doesn't always hit a "nice" boundary.
And as long as Amanda tells you what you need when it's time to do a
restore, what do you care?
>Terry
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
