> I setup a new config for just that system. I ran it with tcpdump watching. >I never saw an attempt to connect to backup. >... >*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label DailySet120 doesn't match labelstr "^LOX[0-9 >][0-9]*$"]. >... > lox wd0a lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] >... > planner: Adding new disk lox:wd0a.
When Amanda "sees" a client/disk it has never done before, it has to do a level 0 (full) dump to get things started. However, a tape error, such as the label string mismatch, tells Amanda it should drop into "degraded mode" in which it will only do incrementals of anything that has not yet been processed. But it cannot do that in your case since the disk is new, so it gave up. Short answer -- fix the tape problem so Amanda has a tape to write to. Longer answer -- you can change the "reserve" parameter to a value less than the default of 100% to allow Amanda to go ahead and do level 0 dumps into the holding disk (assuming they will fit) even when a tape error happens. >Michael Richardson John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
