RE: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes
2004-08-17 10:05:42
I'm just thinking out loud here .....
In your amanda.conf, you show "tapecycle 35 tapes", but do you actually have 35
tapes labeled & listed in tapelist?
I ran into this problem with amanda at one point. I had tapecycle 40, but only
had 20 tapes labeled. As a result,
amanda was looking for the 21st tape, instead of looping back to tape #1.
Lowering the tapecycle to 20 fixed the
problem.
-Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes
>
>
> Am I missing something really easy here....
>
> I have 35 tapes in rotation with a Dell Powervault 120T 7
> tape autochanger.
>
> Usually the backups only take about 2 or 3 tapes, I have
> runtapes set to 4 just in case. This is still a work in
> progress. The problem that I am having is that when amanda
> uses the the last set of tapes (DailyDLT-29-35)
> and the next available tapes (DailyDLT-01-07) are loaded,
> amanda thinks they are active and refuses to use them. For
> example, even though the tape list shows an entry like
> "20040801 DailyDLT-01 reuse " well over
> the 7 day dumpcycle and not even containing data that is
> needed for a full dump, amanda still thinks the tape is
> active and won't use it. For a workaround i keep having to
> amrmtape and amlabel to relabel it and set
> tapelist right- I know I must be missing something simple...
> Am I correct in understanding that by setting the dumpcycle
> to one week that amanda should happily reuse any tape older
> than seven days provided there
> were not any errors in the previous weeks run?
>
> Here's an excerpt from my amanda.conf:
> dumpcycle 7 days
> runspercycle 7
> tapecycle 35 tapes
> bumpsize 20 Mb
> bumpdays 1
> bumpmult 4
> etimeout -3600
> dtimeout 1800
> ctimeout 1300
> tapebufs 20
> runtapes 4
>
> Thanks for any help!!
>
> Jay
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