On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:59:52AM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: > Whenever Amanda has to roll over to a new tape and the first tape in > the expected list is missing, the backups fail. For example, last > night, the expected tapes were: > > C83166 > C83259 > C83170 > > The tape C83166 was not in the changer so my wrapper script loaded > C83259, fired off amdump, and the backup started up fine. However, > when the tape ran out, Amanda tried to load C83166 but couldn't find > it and failed. C83170 was available but Amanda apparently did not > try to load it. >
When amanda reported the "next 3 tapes amanda expects are:" was C83170 within that group? Also, was C83170 used more than 14 tapes ago? I think unless at least the 2nd condition is met, that amanda will not use a tape. > Is there a configuration option I can use to tell Amanda to try the > next tape if the desired tape is not avaialble? ... > > ---- from amanda.conf ---- > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 6 > tapecycle 14 tapes > runtapes 3 > ---- end ----- > > I actually have 19 tapes allocated for this backup. > I'd say have several more available, but not labeled. When you are about to encounter that situation, label a new tape. Amanda will always take a new tape. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
