jon your a genius thankyou! seemed to work!


[amanda@william day-01]$ amlabel DailySet1 tape-01
labeling tape in slot 1 (file:/home2/amandadumps/day-01):
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label tape-01
amlabel: writing label: short write
[amanda@william day-01]$ amcheck -m DailySet1


Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
WARNING: holding disk /home2/holdingdisk: only 16 KB free (296960 KB
requested)
amcheck-server: slot 1: date X        label tape-01 (first labelstr match)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape tape-01 label ok
NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run
NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/index/william: does not exist
Server check took 0.333 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
WARNING: william: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.031 seconds, 1 problem found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)




two questions though if you have the time,

what is meant by short write?
and
WARNING: william: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?

what should i make of this ?

oh one other thing..

im assuming when operational amanda will rotate through slots (day
directories ) according to chg-multi.conf and dump cycle etc
is this true?


thanks again for your help

shaun


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 1:11 PM
To: Amanda Users Listserve
Subject: Re: amlabel problem with backup to disk config


On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:18:02PM +1000, shaun wrote:
> yeah it seems to me that that it the case
>
> shaun
>
> [root@william DailySet1]# pwd
> /etc/amanda/DailySet1
> [root@william DailySet1]# ls -ls
> total 32
>   20 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk        17644 May  9 14:14 amanda.conf
>    4 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk          316 May  9 10:19
chg-multi.conf
>    4 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk         2099 May  9 13:18 disklist
>    4 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk            1 May 12 11:49 tapelist
                                               ^^^

Try creating it as an empty file, not a file with a blank line.

    $ rm tapelist
    $ touch tapelist
        or
    $ > tapelist

No guarentees, but who knows.

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