RE: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes
2004-08-17 11:40:23
Yes, I do have 35 tapes labeled.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dege, Robert C." <robert.dege AT ngc DOT com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:03:03 -0700
To: 'Jay Ted' <jayted AT linuxmail DOT org>, amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: RE: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes
>
> 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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