I'm just thinking out loud here ..... In your amanda.conf, you show "tapecycle 35 tapes", but do you actually have 35 tapes labeled & listed in tapelist?
I ran into this problem with amanda at one point. I had tapecycle 40, but only had 20 tapes labeled. As a result, amanda was looking for the 21st tape, instead of looping back to tape #1. Lowering the tapecycle to 20 fixed the problem. -Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes > > > Am I missing something really easy here.... > > I have 35 tapes in rotation with a Dell Powervault 120T 7 > tape autochanger. > > 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? > > Here's an excerpt from my amanda.conf: > dumpcycle 7 days > runspercycle 7 > tapecycle 35 tapes > bumpsize 20 Mb > bumpdays 1 > bumpmult 4 > etimeout -3600 > dtimeout 1800 > ctimeout 1300 > tapebufs 20 > runtapes 4 > > Thanks for any help!! > > Jay > -- > ______________________________________________ > Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org > This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. > > > Powered by Outblaze >
