RE: Tapelist issue only using 3 tape out of a tapecycle of 10.

Could your tapecycle be smaller now than when you labelled the tapes? I am
not sure exactly the effect this would have but if it were reduced it may
ignore the other tapes ????

Scott...

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Chuck Amadi Systems
Administrator
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 5:07 AM
To: Amanda List
Cc: Chuck
Subject: Tapelist issue only using 3 tape out of a tapecycle of 10.


Hi I have noticed that the backup schedule as changed somehow and is
only using DailySet108 to DailySet110 (3 tapes) is there away to check
and force it to use the next tape after DailySet110 which should be
DailySet101. I did relabel a faulty tape recently.

finaceserver:/etc/amanda/DailySet1 # less tapelist
20051005 DailySet109 reuse
20050930 DailySet108 reuse
20050929 DailySet107 reuse
20050922 DailySet106 reuse
20050916 DailySet105 reuse
20050915 DailySet104 reuse
20050909 DailySet103 reuse
20050908 DailySet102 reuse
20050907 DailySet101 reuse
20050906 DailySet110 reuse


I did Replace a tape DailySet107 which Amanda reports a tape to be
faulty, the label could not be read on the tape, or the data could not
be saved on the tape. It is time to replace the tape.

In order to keep the set of tapes consistant, the new tape should have
the same label as the old tape. So I used the label DailySet107.

     1. Connect on Amanda server, first as root, then change to the user
        amanda, with the command su.
     2. Edit the file /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist and remove the line
        containing the label,(DailySet107) Usually the line is the last
        one of the file.
     3. Edit the file /usr/local/etc/amanda/tapelist.yesterday in the
        same way. Usually the line is the one before the last.
     4. prepare a new tape and write the label on it with the command:
        amlabel normal DailySet107.
     5. Edit the file /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist again, note that
        the line with the label is back, but it is now at the top of the
        file, and the number at the begining is 0. Just move that line
        to the bottom of the file. This worked So I assumed.

Cheers

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