--On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 22:26:54 -0400 kuas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I am using file-driver setup. And set all the tape to "reuse", I set the > tapecycle=9, dumpcycle=5 (full backup every 5 days), > runspercycle=5,runtapes=1 and tapechanger="chg-disk". And in the > tapelist file: > > 20050422 daily8 reuse > 20050422 daily5 reuse > 20050422 daily7 reuse > 20050422 daily6 reuse > 20050422 daily1 reuse > 20050422 daily3 reuse > 20050422 daily2 reuse > 20050422 daily9 reuse > > But, I just realize that my holding-disk is full and some backups > failed because of that. The reason is amanda is running on degraded > mode. The output of amcheck verifies that: > > Holding disk /opt/amanda-holding: 11179172 KB disk space available, > that's plenty > amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20050422 label daily7 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20050422 label daily8 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 9: date 20050422 label daily9 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20050425 label daily1 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20050422 label daily2 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20050422 label daily3 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20050422 label daily1 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20050422 label daily5 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20050422 label daily6 (active tape) > ERROR: new tape not found in rack > (expecting a new tape) > NOTE: skipping tape-writable test > > I don't understand why in slot 4 was not labeled with daily4. But back > to the problem, all the tapes are supposed to be reuse, why it does not > recycle the tapes after the last taped is filled? Am I missing any > configuration? Your dumpcycle is 5 days, but all your tapes are less than five days old, so Amanda won't reuse them yet. Did you write all 9 tapes on the 22nd, or is your changer script not properly updating the tapelist? The date on each tape should be the day it was last written to. Frank > > Thanks, > Kur. -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
