ALso, it sounds like amanda may indeed think you only have one tape drive …. but amanda is being impatient and KEEPS ON asking you to change the tape. I wonder if there is a setting for how often it should ask you? I wonder if that’s a system setting, related to the tape drive, rather than amanda? (Who sent the emails, amanda or the system?)
Just throwing out things to think about. Deb Baddorf > On Nov 10, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Matthew Carter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi! So I'm pretty new to amandabackup and wanted to know if someone could > help me with something I'm seeing. > > I have a small network, consisiting of ten clients and one server which is > the amanda backup server. I don't run anything but local backups of an NFS > shared space. The server has a HP LTO-5 tapedrive directly attached and I was > given 30 tapes in which to complete backups. > > I'm the only admin on the network, so if I am out that day, no tapes get put > in the drive and when I arrive the next day, I see 100 emails from amanda > that makes me think amanda thinks I have a changer instead of a single tape > drive. > > Here is my amanda.config: > > org "DARSet" > mailto "admin@localhost" > dumpcycle 6week > runspercycle 5 > tapechanger "chg-manual" > tapedev "/dev/nst0" > changerfile "/etc/amanda/DARSet/chg-manual.conf" > changerdev "/dev/null" > tapetype HP-LTO-5 > labelstr "^DARSet[0-9][0-9]*$" > dtimeout 1800 > ctimeout 30 > etimeout 300 > > define dumptype global { > comment "Global Definitions" > auth "local" > } > define dumptype gui-base { > global > program "GNUTAR" > comment "gui base dumptype dumped with tar" > compress none > index yes > } > define tapetype HP-LTO-5 { > length 1480633696 kbytes > filemark 739 kbytes > speed 81970 kps > blocksize 32 kbytes > } > includefile "advanced.conf" > includefile "/etc/amanda/template.d/dumptypes" > includefile "/etc/amanda/template.d/tapetypes" > > > How can I tell amanda that it is a single drive? Thanks for any help! > > > Matt >
