-- Denise E. Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer 734.822.2037 Multilingual Internet Domain Name Registrations - http://www.walid.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:26:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the amanda tape cycle (fwd) Yes - I removed most of the older labels in the tapelist. I still need to re-label each tape - before amanda will let me amflush the holding disk directly to tape or full dump force directly to tape. Does that make sense? amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amcheck daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- /dump/amanda: 10171924 KB disk space available, using 9659924 KB. ERROR: /dev/rmt/0cbn: no tape online. (expecting a new tape) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test. Server check took 20.005 seconds. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.137 seconds, 0 problems found. (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1) amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amadmin daily tape The next Amanda run should go onto a new tape. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 12 Nov 2000 20:28:33 -0200 From: Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the amanda tape cycle On Nov 12, 2000, Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know my tapecycle # should match the number of tapes I am using. > Even if I change my tapecycle number to 4, I still have to label and > force a re-label of each tape. > When I run amcheck amanda suggests a tape to use or tells me to put in a > new tape. Amanda will always accept a new tape, but it suggests the oldest reusable tape in the tapelist file (unless there aren't at least tapecycle reusable tapes in the cycle), and it will accept any tape that is at least as old as the tapecycle-th newest reusable one. Since your tapelist has more than 4 tape labels, you've probably re-labeled some tapes with labels different from the ones they already had. Just remove the older entries from the tapelist and Amanda will start suggesting the right tapes. Alternatively, you may ignore the suggestion and just keep giving it acceptable tapes. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist *Please* write to mailing lists, not to me
