On Monday 01 December 2003 09:56, Dave Ewart wrote: >Hello, > >We have a four-week, five days per week cycle: > > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 5 > tapecycle 20 tapes > >These twenty tapes are named OurName-A-Mon, OurName-A-Tue, ..., >OurName-A-Fri, OurName-B-Mon, ..., OurName-D-Fri (in other words, > the letters A, B, C, D refer to weeks in the four-week cycle): > >Week 1: A-Mon on Monday, A-Tue on Tuesday, A-Wed on Wednesday etc. >Week 2: B-Mon on Monday, B-Tue on Tuesday etc. >Week 3: C-Mon ... C-Fri >Week 4: D-Mon ... D-Fri > >Last Friday, we were due to use OurName-B-Fri, but because of a disk >space problem in /var/log, the job failed. AMANDA is still > expecting to use OurName-B-Fri, rather than OurName-C-Mon which > would be part of the usual schedule. After putting OurName-C-Mon > in the drive, amcheck produces this: > > ERROR: cannot overwrite active tape OurName-C-Mon > (expecting tape OurName-B-Fri or a new tape) > >Tried a suggestion I found in the AMANDA FAQ, which was to set >OurName-B-Fri as "no-reuse" so that it wouldn't ask for it, but this >still wouldn't make it want to use OurName-C-Mon: > > ERROR: cannot overwrite active tape CRUK-Weekly-C-Mon > (expecting a new tape) > >What can I try here? Basically, the contents of both OurName-B-Fri > and OurName-C-Mon are 'disposable', since they are both due to be > overwritten in any case. > >Comments suggesting that "using the day-of-the-week in the label is > a bad idea" won't be considered helpful, although I have a feeling > that may be something I'll hear ... :-)
You took the words right off my keyboard Dave. That said, one could edit the tapelist and fix it, but I don't recall now exactly what you'd have to do, so I'll refrain. Perhaps someone more familiar with amanda's hormones can help :-) Here, its no problem as the tapes are simply numbered in sequence. >Dave. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
