Re: Logs and reporting

[Prashant Ramhit]

Title: Blue Barracuda

Hi All, I set amanda user to receive the mail. And this is the mail report Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:28:29 +0100 From: Amanda Backup System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bluebarracuda - Daily Tape AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR September 29, 2008 Hostname: backupserver Org     : Bluebarracuda - Daily Tape Config  : fullback Date    : September 29, 2008 These dumps were to tape FULLBACK-01. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. STATISTICS:                           Total       Full      Incr.                         --------   --------   -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00 Run Time (hrs:min)         0:00 Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00 Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0 Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- Filesystems Dumped            1          1          0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1000.0     1000.0        -- Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00 Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0 Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0 Filesystems Taped             1          1          0 Chunks Taped                  0          0          0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)    12.4       12.4        -- USAGE BY TAPE:   Label             Time      Size      %    Nb    Nc   FULLBACK-01       0:00       32k    0.0     1     0 NOTES:   planner: Last full dump of localhost:/cache on tape  overwritten in 1 run.   driver: WARNING: This is not the first amdump run today. Enable the usetimestamps option in the configuration file if you want to run amdump more than once per calendar day.   taper: tape FULLBACK-01 kb 64 fm 1 [OK]   big estimate: localhost /cache 0                 est: 64k    out 32k But the next time i run it i will say *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. Is there any possibility to make it use the same tape over and over again for this backup. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/amanda/fullback/tapelist 20080929 FULLBACK-01 reuse Kind Regards, Prashant Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Prashant Ramhit wrote: Hi All, Thanks for your help. Attached is the amdump.1 Do you think its because it is not using the tape FULLBACK-01. How can I make it to reuse fullback-01 again. Do the following two command:  amrmtape fullbackfullback-01  amlabel -f fullback fullback-01 Your 'mailto' is set to 'root', did it receive the email report? Jean-Louis -- Prashant Ramhit Technical   [EMAIL PROTECTED] d: +44 (0)20 7923 6870 t: +44 (0)20 7923 6840 www.bluebarracuda.com