--On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 22:26:54 -0400 kuas <ku4s AT users.sourceforge DOT 
net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am using file-driver setup. And set all the tape to "reuse", I set the
> tapecycle=9, dumpcycle=5 (full backup every 5 days),
> runspercycle=5,runtapes=1 and tapechanger="chg-disk". And in the
> tapelist file:
> 
> 20050422 daily8 reuse
> 20050422 daily5 reuse
> 20050422 daily7 reuse
> 20050422 daily6 reuse
> 20050422 daily1 reuse
> 20050422 daily3 reuse
> 20050422 daily2 reuse
> 20050422 daily9 reuse
> 
> But,  I just realize that my holding-disk is full and some backups
> failed because of that. The reason is amanda is running on degraded
> mode. The output of amcheck verifies that:
> 
> Holding disk /opt/amanda-holding: 11179172 KB disk space available,
> that's plenty
> amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20050422 label daily7 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20050422 label daily8 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 9: date 20050422 label daily9 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20050425 label daily1 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20050422 label daily2 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20050422 label daily3 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20050422 label daily1 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20050422 label daily5 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20050422 label daily6 (active tape)
> ERROR: new tape not found in rack
>       (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> 
> I don't understand why in slot 4 was not labeled with daily4. But back
> to the problem, all the tapes are supposed to be reuse, why it does not
> recycle the tapes after the last taped is filled? Am I missing any
> configuration?

Your dumpcycle  is 5 days, but all your tapes are less than five days old,
so Amanda won't reuse them yet.  Did you write all 9 tapes on the 22nd,
or is your changer script not properly updating the tapelist?  The date on
each tape should be the day it was last written to.

Frank

> 
> Thanks,
> Kur.



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