On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 at 9:37pm, Jay Ted wrote > Usually the backups only take about 2 or 3 tapes, I have runtapes set to 4 just in > case. This is still a work in progress. The problem that I am having is that when > amanda uses the the last set of tapes (DailyDLT-29-35) > and the next available tapes (DailyDLT-01-07) are loaded, amanda thinks they are > active and refuses to use them. For example, even though the tape list shows an > entry like "20040801 DailyDLT-01 reuse " well over > the 7 day dumpcycle and not even containing data that is needed for a full dump, > amanda still thinks the tape is active and won't use it. For a workaround i keep > having to amrmtape and amlabel to relabel it and set > tapelist right- I know I must be missing something simple... Am I correct in > understanding that by setting the dumpcycle to one week that amanda should happily > reuse any tape older than seven days provided there > were not any errors in the previous weeks run?
No. Amanda uses the tapes in the order they were first used, period. It doesn't care how long it's been since a tape was used. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
