Paul Bijnens wrote: > Kenny Mok (Wing Fung) wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I have the following setting in my amanda.conf : >> >> dumpcycle 0 day # the number of days in the normal dump cycle >> tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation >> runspercycle 1 >> runtapes 1 >> >> The situation is I have 12 tapes and I want to full backup my server >> each day, 6 times a week. Thus, the above setting is originally intended >> lasting for 2 weeks and after that, reusing the tape-set from tape 1 >> again. >> >> In the first week, the first 6 tapes worked exactly in the way I want, >> i.e. full backup the server each day. However, when the second week >> begins, the 7th tape only backup those incremental changes (no full >> backup at all), as shown in the following report : >> >> STATISTICS: >> Total Full Daily >> -------- -------- -------- >> Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:02 >> Run Time (hrs:min) 0:52 >> Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:50 0:00 0:50 >> Output Size (meg) 245.1 0.0 245.1 >> Original Size (meg) 1335.0 0.0 1335.0 >> Avg Compressed Size (%) 18.4 -- 18.4 (level:#disks ...) >> Filesystems Dumped 1 0 1 (1:1) >> Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 83.5 -- 83.5 >> > > Wasn't there a tape problem? Like error, or unlabeled tape, or...? > (It would be more convincing if you included the next few lines from > the report, or the first few, containing all imporant messages too.) > > In that case amanda falls back to degraded mode, and dumps to > holdingdisk. Having "reserve 100" (the default) means that 100% > of the holdingdisk is reserved for incremental backups in such cases. > Yup ~~!!! You are right ~~!!! During these errors, I tried to remove the tape from the drive and test the amflush command ....
I thought that even there is no tape in the drive, amanda will work as usual by just changing the storing medium to the holding disk. However, I was wrong .... So .... how can I avoid amanda from falling back to degraded mode ?? how can amanda still run a full backup to the holding disk even there is no tape in the drive ?? Thanks in advance ~~!!!! ^_^
