On Mon, 13 May 2002, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Ok, > > I don't quite understand things I guess. The week before last, I > couldn't get amanda to work because it didn't want to overwrite the tape > I had used to run amcheck with. So, I relabeled the tape, and set > things up to run again. This time, I get back in to work today and go > through the log files generated (for some reason I can't get them with > amreport this time, but that's not part of this). > > This time is says, it can't overwrite an active tape. Why not? > Aren't they supposed to be active? What is going wrong here? > > Andy >
It sounds like you're in a testing mode right now. It would also help us to figure out the exact problem if you included the error message and what your dumpcycle and tapecycle are in your amanda.conf file. If you want to remove the tape in a brute force manner, you could remove it out of the tapelist file. However, keep in mind that the strategy with Amanda is to tell it how many tapes you're going to use over a time period and once those tapes are properly labeled, Amanda will tell you which tape it wants next. e.g. I'm on a 15 tape, 3 week cycle, labeled 'VOL[1-3][1-5]' (1st Monday is VOL11). If I try to put in VOL 22 on a Monday, Amanda will not dump it to the tape but it will dump it to the holding disk. Time for some coffee ... -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
