Two issues I see. One is that you only have one cycle of dumps with full
backups at a time. The other is only partial, is getting reused, and
will contain incrementals referring back to fulls that have been reused
already. So you don't really have what I would consider proper
redundancy. The other is that the number of vtapes is exactly equal to
the tapecycle. I would typically have it be more.
Try
dumpcycle 14
runspercycle 14
runtapes 1
tapecycle 42
and then give it, say, 44 labeled vtapes.
That way, you would always have two cycles of backups with full backups,
while the third and oldest cycle is getting reused. By having a couple
extra vtapes, you also guarantee that you will have some available for
reuse. Of course, this all depends on your other design parameters --
how much disk space you have available for vtapes, etc.
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Erdös 4
Brian Cuttler wrote:
right - sorry.
You force a full only every 28 days, that might be
level 0, 0, 1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,33,3,4,4,4,44,5,5,5,5,55,5,6,6,6,67,7,7,7,7
difficult restore process, more common to have a dumpcycle of 1 or 2
weeks, used (probably) more tape each day but simplifies the restores.
No, I don't see an obvious reason why you aren't finding a tape
to write on.
All 40 tapes are actually in the jukebox ?
The changer-config file is correct, amanda knows there are
40 tapes/40 slots ?
How to you correct the problem now ?
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 03:01:24PM -0400, Sam Hooker wrote:
- ----- "Brian Cuttler" <brian AT wadsworth DOT org> wrote:
what are the values for
dumpcycle
runspercycle
runtapes
tapecycle
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:45:46PM -0400, Sam Hooker wrote:
...
[root@inara NOISEPLANT]# for opt in dumpcycle runspercycle tapecycle
runtapes tpchanger tapedev; do echo -n "$opt: "; amgetconf NOISEPLANT
$opt; done
dumpcycle: 28
runspercycle: 28
tapecycle: 40
runtapes: 1
tpchanger: chg-disk
tapedev: file:/storage0/amandatapes/NOISEPLANT/slots
:-)
Cheers,
- -sth
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