On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:31:57PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "JL" == Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JL> I'm not sure what you were expecting amcheck to do. > > I was expecting it to alert me to the fact that no suitable tape was > found and that I should stick a new tape in the changer. If I don't > change out tapes, the backups tonight will fail. If I run amcheck -m > as normal, no mail will be sent and so the operator will have no idea > that it's time to stuff some new tapes in.
Apologies, I was considering that as the message you did receive. > > Previously I have always use a plain drive and changed the tapes > manually. If I forgot to put a new tape in, amcheck would always > complain it. > > JL> It did not find a tape it thought was suitable to use. Your > JL> tapecycle parameter looks to be greater than 7, so it wants an new > JL> (eighth) tape. > > I understand that, but it seems that the condition isn't thought of as > a problem by amcheck, hence the subject "NO PROBLEMS FOUND" and the > total lack of mail when '-m' is given when in reality the system is in > an error state. > Good explanation of the situation that I did not consider. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
