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)
