On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Bort, Paul wrote: - Oops. Do you have "runtapes 2" ? I think you would have to mark all of the - tapes that are in this run as no-reuse to get it to cycle around. - - Do you have runtapes * runspercycle = tapecycle? (ie, runtapes=2, - runspercycle=5, tapecycle=10 or something like that?) I should have been - more explicit about there needing to be spare tapes in the rotation for - no-reuse to do what you would expect. - - From what I've seen on the list, it's a good idea to have tapecycle > - runtapes*runspercycle, for just this reason. You can temporarily pull a tape - from the rotation without confusing AMANDA. (For example, I have runtapes=1, - runspercycle=5, tapecycle=30, so I have six complete backup sets, one for - each of the last six weeks. I picked those numbers based on the number of - tape magazines I had for my changer.) - - Good Luck.
Decreasing tapecycle from 15 to 10 did the trick. Thanks -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
