I'm not familiar with vtapes, but in any case their amanda.conf file has dumpcycle 1 day # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle -1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) tapecycle 25 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation # 4 weeks (dumpcycle) times 5 tapes per week (just # the weekdays) plus a few to handle errors that # need amflush and so we do not overwrite the full # backups performed at the beginning of the previous # cycle
(not sure why runspercycle is -1) and they have runtapes 5 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump tpchanger "chg-disk" # the tape-changer glue script tapedev "file:/home1_data/backups/DailySet3/slots" # the no-rewind tape device to be used changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet3/changer" changerdev "@DEFAULT_CHANGER_DEVICE@" The file /etc/amanda/DailySet3/changer does not exist. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Florian Lengyel <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi: > > I now have access to the backup system and can run my own checks. > > The report I received that AMANDA does not send email even when amcheck -m > DailySet3 > indicates a changer error seems to have been mistaken. (I needed access to > the system > to see for myself what was really going on. I leave aside for the time > being > the question of who should be receiving the emails--which get left on the > AMANDA server and > are not being forwarded to someone who can address the error.) After this, > I will attempt to > figure out why there is a changer error. (Any suggestions would be > appreciated.) > > amcheck -m DailySet3 > > sends the following email > > (by the way, echo $? returns 1, as it should) > > Message 78: > From bac...@guass Fri Sep 10 11:27:18 2010 > X-Original-To: bac...@guass > To: bac...@guass > Subject: DailySet3 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:27:18 -0400 (EDT) > From: bac...@guass (backup) > > Changer problem: Malformed response from changer -info: 1 at > /usr/lib/amanda/perl/Amanda/MainLoop.pm line 359 > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > ----------------------------- > Holding disk /home1_data/dumps: 1200095232 KB disk space available, using > 1095237632 KB > (expecting tape DailySet3-014 or a new tape) > NOTE: info dir /etc/amanda/DailySet3/curinfo/ > guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/_home1_grossberg does not exist > NOTE: it will be created on the next run. > NOTE: index dir /etc/amanda/DailySet3/index/ > guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/_home1_grossberg does not exist > NOTE: it will be created on the next run. > Server check took 0.658 seconds > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -------------------------------- > Client check: 1 host checked in 1.210 seconds. 0 problems found. > > > Thanks again, > > FL > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer problem? >> I'm >> > told that amcheck does not send the email. >> >> Yes, and normally it does, so that's either mistakenly reported or >> there's a bug of some sort. >> >> Dustin >> >> -- >> Open Source Storage Engineer >> http://www.zmanda.com >> > >
