Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> fedora schrieb:
>> Questions:
>> 1) "No writable valid tape found". What does it mean?
> 
> 
>> There was no tape in your drive/changer or it was not writeable (write 
>> protected, broken tape, no tape with valid label,...)
>> 
> sdfadfadfa
> 
>> 2) Do I need to run amflush? I found out a folder in holding disk dated
>> 23
>> July 2007.
> 
> If the folder isn't empty, you have to run amflush, if you want to have
> your 
> data on tape.
> 
> 
> 
>> 3) "can't switch to incremental dump". What does it mean? (causing failed
>> for the dump summary "domin11 -/lib/mysql 0 FAILED......." )
> 
> Amanda can't do a full dump on your tape, because of to less space. And 
> without having a full dump, Amanda can't do an incremental dump. This
> could 
> happen if you only use one tape and the estimated size is compressed (if
> you 
> use compression) bigger than your tape. Or you use more tapes and you
> don't 
> use splitting, ...
> 
> 
> 
>> 4) "cannot overwrite active tape DailySet1*".  What does it mean?
> 
> Seams you have too less tapes configured for one dumpcycle. Dumpcycle is
> the 
> number of of days in a backup cycle (e.g. one week). Amanda tries to do a
> full 
> backup at least this often (e.g. once per week). When you have e.g. 
> runspercycle=7 (how often you let amanda do amdump in dumpcycle) and a 
> tapecycle of 6, then amanda had to overwrite the first tape again to do
> the 
> backup on the last day. And this is what the message means. You can't 
> overwrite the tape, because you could never do a restore then, because of
> the 
> overwritten first tape. Amanda prevent you doing that.
> 
> # man amanda.conf
> - > tapecycle
> This is calculated by multiplying the number of amdump runs per dump cycle 
> (runspercycle parameter) times the number of tapes used per run (runtapes 
> parameter). Typically two to four times this calculated number of tapes
> are in 
> rotation.
> 
> 
> 
>> 5) "taper: changer problem: 11 file:/backup/amanda/dumps/tape11". What
>> does
>> it mean?
> 
> Somethings wrong with your changer. :-) Any more information?
> 
> 
> 
>> 6) For  big/small estimate, What is the different between them? As I know
>> level 0 is full backup, level 1 is incremental and what about level 2?
> 
> I'm not sure about the meaning of big/small estimate.
> Level 0 is full
> Level 1 is incremental incremental since last level 0
> Level 2 is incremental incremental since last level 1
> ...
> 
> 
> 
>> 7) Lastly, all my client servers got N/A result for the taper stats
>> accept
>> domain11. Why?
> Amanda clients running? Firewalls? Any messages inside the logs?
> 
> 
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
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> 

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