On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:23:10PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:31:38AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> > On 25/02/17 01:58 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > I'm getting a lot of these messages in my nightly report
> > >
> > >    planner: Last full dump of cyber.jgcomp.com:Home on tape DS1-084 
> > > overwritten in 1 run.
> > >    planner: Last full dump of cyber.jgcomp.com:Vault on tape DS1-079 
> > > overwritten in 1 run.
> > >
> > > It made little sense as there are many full dumps or these
> > > various DLEs sprinkled back to tape DS1-000.  And, although
> > > there were about 10 unused tapes remaining, I added a bunch
> > > more which had no effect on the "will be overwritten" messages.
> > >
> > > Then I looked at the tapelist and found 2 different formats.
> > > This is certainly due to my switching from CentOS packages
> > > (amanda 3.3.3.) to Zmanda pre-built binaries for RHEL (amanda
> > > 3.4.1).
> > >
> > > Previously labeled tapes have a 4 column layout but when the
> > > new amanda version uses a tape, it modifies that layout to a
> > > 7 column format adding "POOL", "STORAGE", and "CONFIG" columns.
> > > Now my tapelist has 4 contiguous groups.
> > >
> > >      recently labeled  unused   7 column layout
> > >    previously labeled  unused   4 column layout
> > >    previously labeled    used   7 column layout
> > >    previously labeled    used   4 column layout
> > >
> > > Why does the planner think it will overwrite the last full dumps?
> > >
> > > Would simply adding the additional 7 fields to the tapelist
> > > correct this error or would other things have to change also?
> > Jon,
> > It should fix the issue.
> > >
> > > Would adding the extra columns adversely affect anything else?
> > no.
> 
> I didn't think so, I'll make the change and check tonights results.

backup ran normally last night, no overwrite messages.

Jon
-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                 [email protected]
 11226 South Shore Rd.          (703) 787-0688 (H)
 Reston, VA  20190              (703) 935-6720 (C)

Reply via email to