From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 27, 2009 20:56 > On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > >Amanda 2.6.1, RHEL 5.3 > > Mmm, from tarball or rpm?
>From the amanda.org RPM file. > >6. My first amdump started with tape 5 and then the next went to 1 > > and then back to 5 and now just uses 5 (and does not dump > > anything). > > Inspect the tapelist at your /build/path/etc/amanda/DailySet1/, usually > /usr/local/etc/amanda/, something went agaga. It sounds as if > there are only > 2 entries, where there should be 5. Amlabel originates that > file, and amdump > shuffles the list as they are used. There were definitely 5 entries. I think the problem was that it did a level 0 and then an (empty) level 1. Each subsequent amdump was also empty hence the re-use of the tape. > If the system is not 'adjusted' by human hands :), the normal tape > usage will be in the order they were labeled. I use a script that > increments the tape number as they are being labeled when I need to > restart the whole thing as I did about 60 days back due to a drive > failure of the drive the vtapes I use were on. I did "adjust" things so this could have been part of the problem. > Any other problems should be found by an su amanda -c "amcheck > DailySet1" where 'amanda' is the user who will run the backups. That > user can be anyone, but should be a member of the group disk or > backup, even bin for some distributions. Probably compiled in & fixed > by RH if its rpm's. And my advise isn't going to be 100% spot on as > I don't use the rpms. I have been using the amanda.org RPMs so the user is amandabackup and I have been running the amcheck but no obvious errors. Thanks for you for your response. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com
