Hello All, Man it has been a while since I have had a need to post a question here! Amanda has been running beautifully and trouble free! That is until my disk array broke. Fortunately I had another one that I brought online with a new install of Amanda also.
I am using VTAPES with the hard disk style backups. Got everything running and I wanted to get caught up on the backups. So I set the runtapes to 8. But for several days now all that is used are two tapes and I get a message: partial taper: No space left on device Each day it is a different DLE. Looking through the log file I can see where it runs out of tape and switches to the next one. Which I think explains the partial taper message. Then it will right a second tape. But that is where it stops. I guess I was thinking that the planner would configure a run to use all eight tapes if needed. I have the following set in amanda.conf: runtapes 8 dumpcycle 2 weeks runspercycle 14 tapecycle 37 length 40Gb I did notice that the maxdumpsize was set to -1. I commented that out so that it will default to ( runtapes * length ). Do ya'll think that may get it to use the eight tapes if needed? Nothing is left in the holding disk, so I do not suspect autoflush or anything. In the report, planner states that many DLE's last full will be overwritten in 2 - X runs. So I think there are some level 0's she could be doing?? Other ideas / suggestions? TIA --- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
