Jean-Louis, * Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> [20081218 13:11]: > What is the error you get in the report?
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [Could not find a tape to use]. There are 592586640M of dumps left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. > What is the number of 'reuse' tape in the tapelist? 62 tapes in tapelist, 61 in 'reuse' and 1 in 'no-reuse' ~# grep 'no-reuse' /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/right2/tapelist 20081214045604 av24-2_right2_V00015L3 no-reuse ~# grep -v 'no-reuse' /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/right2/tapelist | wc -l 61 > Is it greater than your tapecycle? ~# grep tapecycle /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/right2/amanda.conf tapecycle 62 thanks! jf > > Jean-Louis > > Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > >Hi, > >An amanda run last night ended up in the holddisk due to the fact > >that chg-zd-mtx didn't hunt for the requested tape even it's loaded and > >it is in 'reuse' mode. Note that previous to the run I had put a tape in > >`no-reuse' mode but that tape wasn't in the expected set of tapes for > >this run. Amanda-2.6.0p2 btw. > > > >I have attached the debug files but essentially the events went like > >this: the tape drive got unloaded (the drive was empty so nothing > >really happened there), then current slot was loaded, then an attemp to add > >its label to the amanda barcode file but the barcode was already > >in there, then proceeded to load the next slot containing the tape > >that amanda was expecting but it just kept going, trying the sync the > >label to the barcodes file, and that went on for the remaining slots > >and amanda finally gave up after scanning the whole slot list. > > > >Any ideas? I just did a 'amtape $conf label _some_label' without > >a glitch, amanda hunting and loading the right tape but I see the > >same pattern right now after trying the flush the hold disk to tape. > > > >thanks! > >jf > > -- <° >< Jean-François Malouin McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Systems/Network Administrator Montréal Neurological Institute 3801 Rue University, Suite WB219, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2B4, Canada
