At Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:22:59 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> > amvault is trying to copy something from the volume labelled > '60villagedrive-20110710-1' but the volume is not found. > > Use an amvault command that do not try to read '60villagedrive-20110710-1'. My amvault command should not be reading 60villagedrive-20110710-1! 60villagedrive-20110710-1 is in fact an *old* vault tape! > > Jean-Louis > > > On 09/24/2011 10:27 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > We have things set up to create weekly archives of full backups using > > amvault and have encountered a *strange* problem. This past week > > amvault is giving this error message: > > > > FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: > > amvault: FATAL label '60villagedrive-20110710-1' not found > > > > The 'tape' with the label '60villagedrive-20110710-1' has been removed > > from the changer -- it is not a real tape changer, but a disk-based on and > > the contents of the 'tape' has been burned onto DVDs and deleted, using rm > > and not amrmtape, from the changer disk -- we want to keep the label in > > the database so we can use amanda to recover from it at some future > > time, should that prove necessary. > > > > I have marked this tape as 'no-reuse', but it is still giving this > > error. Why? And how do we tell amvault not fail and to use a 'fresh' > > tape and label it properly? Why is amvault looking for an old tape to > > re-cycle? > > > > We are using CentOS 5 and amanda 3.2.0 on a 32-bit machine. > > > > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / [email protected] Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
