On Jun 21, 2001, Pamela Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 0 20010615 DailySet112 3 1524850 1524864 788
> 3 20010621 DailySet112 3 252040 252064 218
You asked for one full backup per week (dumpcycle), and told Amanda to
use only 6 tapes (tapecycle), but it appears that you didn't run
Amanda 5 times during the week (runspercycle), which might explain why
it wouldn't have found enough space in the tape to run another full
backup of the disk, especially given that it wasn't due yet (since a
week hadn't passed).
It's strongly recommended that you have additional tapes ((2 *
runspercycle + 1) * runtapes) in the tapecycle in case a full backup
fails: then you can always go back to the other, without the risk of
having had it just overwritten.
Amanda probably made a lot of noise in the mail backups warning that
the last full backup of that disk was about to be overwritten, and
finally overwritten. This is a strong indication that your tapecycle
is too short, or your dumpcycle is too long, or that you aren't
following the runspercycle plan.
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