Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me with this, i've looked around and can't answer the question myself. I've got two DLT7000 drives directly attached to my Solaris server for backups, and they will run normally. On occassion, I'll get a report back like:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label DS036 or new tape not found in rack]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush again to flush them to tape. The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to used are: DS036, DS035. Now, there are two tapes in the drives: twdev001:/home/amanda$ amtape staging show amtape: scanning all 2 slots in tape-changer rack: slot 2: date 20030722 label DS026 slot 1: date 20030722 label DS010 My questions are why does the backup want to use other tapes, and why won't it just use what's in the drives? Can I get Amanda to just use whatever is in teh drives and not care about a retention? We rotate the tapes out daily, since we need to do it by hand anyway. They go offsite for a month and then back into rotation, so we don't really follow any rules as to which tape to put in when. The first two tapes in tapelist are what's in the drives, DS026 and DS010, but we may not necessarily have the last two, which I'm guessing are what Amanda expects, DS035 and DS036. twdev001:/home/amanda/staging$ more tapelist 20030722 DS010 reuse 20030722 DS026 reuse 20030721 DS029 reuse 20030718 DS025 reuse 20030718 DS008 reuse ...Continues down 20030616 DS009 reuse 20030610 DS027 reuse 20030610 DS035 reuse 20030526 DS036 reuse Please help, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Adam __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
