On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:27:33PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> What is the runtapes setting?

runtapes is 2.  haha!  now it makes sense.  thank you!

> How many tapes in the tapelist file?

13.
 
> >amadmin default find aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid :
> >
> >date       host                   disk          lv tape or file file part 
> >2009-07-17 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  0 DailySetA16    10   -- 
> >2009-07-18 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA1      9   -- 
> >2009-07-19 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA3      5   -- 
> >2009-07-20 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA4      5   -- 
> >2009-07-21 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  0 DailySetA5     10   -- 
> >2009-07-22 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA6     10   -- 
> >2009-07-23 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  0 DailySetA7      9   -- 
> >2009-07-24 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA8      5   -- 
> >2009-07-25 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA9      5   -- 
> >2009-07-26 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA10     9   -- 
> >2009-07-27 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  0 DailySetA11    10   -- 
> >2009-07-28 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA12     9   -- 
> >2009-07-29 aragorn.poofy.goof.com /disk/conraid  1 DailySetA13     5   -- 

planner for 2009-07-29 runs and assumes run will span two tapes:
DailySetA13 and DailySetA16.  five runs after that, assuming two tapes,
it will overwrite DailySetA11.

I have changed runtapes to 1, which should fix the problem.  thanks
again!

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