On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:09:20PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi again, > > * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 19:10] thus spake: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > did you looked at the dates on the 40 tapes for the stk_40-conf1 > > > in the tapelist file? They should be reused. Look at tape 000001: > > > > > > 20030217 000001 reuse > > > > > > > Now that you mention it, did you look at the bottom of the list: > > > > 20030220 000004 reuse > > 20030219 000003 reuse > > 20030218 000002 reuse > > 20030217 000001 reuse > > 20030212 000040 reuse > > > > Tape 40 has not been used since much earlier than any other tape > > in the tapelist. > > > > Did you perhaps reset things between 2/12 and 2/17? > > Amanda seems to want to use tape 40 or a new tape. > > I did a number of things :) > First, while on holidays backups timed out for a period of 3 weeks and > my assistants could not find out why. Turned out that 'etimeout' was > too small. Right after that I realized that one critical filesystem > had only one full backup image left on tape (000040) and, as things go > bad in cluster, that filesystem experienced corruption, or so it > seemed at the time. Turns out that one user with elevated privileges > messed up. So, while we digged for the error I reserved tape 00040 > with 'amadmin stk_40-conf1 no-reuse 000040'. After that, amanda always > complained about using it or a new tape *or* tapes 000001 to 000010.
If I understand correctly, you labeled and had 40 tapes in circulation and had a tapecycle of 40. Then you removed one from circulation reducing the number to 39. Seems likely that is the reason amanda is asking for a "new" tape, to get the number back up to 40. Did you amlabel a new tape? If so, that is the one it wants to use, though I do not see it in your tapelist. I see 000040 shows in your tapelist as reuse, not no-reuse. Did you try to amlabel it 000040 again? Remembering to use the "-f" option? Or did you just hand edit the tapelist file? But it seems to me that amanda wants to use tape 000040 if it believes 000040 is back in circulation, or a newly labeled (relabeled) tape if it thinks there are only 39 tapes in circulation. But clearly not tapes 000001 to 000010. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
