Jean-Louis, thanks for the patch! I applied it when you sent it but had to
wait to see if the system would cycle through past the "no-reuse" tape. It
did so successfully and all is working fine now!
Thanks again!
Regards,
Gordon Mills
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martineau AT zmanda DOT com]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:20 PM
To: Gordon.Mills AT usa DOT net
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Using no-reuse with vtapes
I attached a bad version of the patch,
Try this one instead.
Jean-Louis
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>
> Changing tapecycle will not fix your problem because the chg-disk
> changer script use it to set it's LASTSLOT.
>
> The use of chg-disk with 'no-reuse' is incompatible, but it could be
> easily fix (attached patch):
> - chg-disk must set its LASTSLOT from a changer configuration file.
>
> After that, you will have 2 possibilities:
> set LASTSLOT to 22, create the slot directory and label it.
> or
> set LASTSLOT to 21 and tapecycle to 20.
>
>
> Try the attached patch, the changer configuration filename is your
> setting of changerfile with a ".conf" appended.
> Add a "LASTSLOT=22" to the changer configuration file.
>
> Jean-Louis
>
>
> Gordon J. Mills III wrote:
>> I am having a problem using the no-reuse feature with vtapes. I have
>> a tape that contains files from a machine that is going to be
>> decommissioned. I want to save the last full backup of that machine.
>> So I put no-reuse next to that tape in the tapelist file. The problem
>> is that the next time the tape cycle comes around to that tape it
>> acts like there is no available tape. It cycles through all the tapes
>> and says "(expecting a new tape)" at the end.
>> So the question is: how can I use the "no-reuse" feature? It seems
>> that amanda has to have tapecycle number of tapes even if dumpcycle
>> is set to a number lower than that. The relative section of my
>> amanda.conf is below.
>> This is on 2.5.0b1.
>>
>> dumpcycle 10 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
>> runspercycle 10
>> tapecycle 21 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
>>
>> bumpsize 10 MB # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1
>> -> 2
>> bumpdays 2 # minimum days at each level
>> bumpmult 1.5 # threshold = bumpsize * (level-1)**bumpmult
>>
>> runtapes 1 # explained in WHATS.NEW
>> tpchanger "chg-disk" # the tape-changer glue script, see
>> TAPE.CHANGERS changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer"
>> tapedev "file:/amandatapes/DailySet1/" # Linux @ tuck, important:
>> norewinding
>> # tapedev "/dev/nrst8" # or use the (no-rewind!) tape device
>> directly rawtapedev "file:/amandatapes/DailySet1/"
>>
>> tapetype HARD-DISK # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes
>> below)
>> labelstr "^TAPE[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must
>> match
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gordon
>>
>>
>>
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