Yes, I do have 35 tapes labeled. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dege, Robert C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:03:03 -0700 To: 'Jay Ted' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes > > 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 > > -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox.
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