Frank Smith wrote:

>--On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 22:26:54 -0400 kuas <ku4s AT users.sourceforge 
>DOT net> wrote:
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>>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?
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>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.
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I see, so it will go strictly by the day to prevent full backup lost as
reference. I was actually testing amanda at that time, by calling amdump
straight in the command line. How can I fix this without resetting all
the tapes again. Can I reset the day count? Is there anyway I can force
it going to full backup and let it continue backup in the tape? Thanks.

Kuas.