Frank Smith wrote: >--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. > > I see, so it will go strictly by the day to prevent full backup lost as reference. I was actually testing amanda at that time, by calling amdump straight in the command line. How can I fix this without resetting all the tapes again. Can I reset the day count? Is there anyway I can force it going to full backup and let it continue backup in the tape? Thanks.
Kuas.
