At Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:40:55 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 09/26/2011 10:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > 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! > > Which command are you using? > set 'debug-recovery' to 9 in amanda.conf > retry amvault > post the amvault debug file. I found the problem. I was using a script to compute the timestamps of the most recent fulls for the various disks, but one machine has been turned off (since it was not being used) and only a very old backup was found (the archival backup). I fixed my script to skip backups more than 10 days old. > > Jean-Louis > > > > >> 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
