On Friday 18 July 2003 10:30, Brendon Colby wrote:
>On Friday 18 July 2003 09:07, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> What would be the PITA.  Tuesday's tape would not be available for
>> Tuesday? If that is the problem, this is the type of labeling that
>> is so often cautioned against.
>
>The labels are generic. The data center uses an in-house written
> piece of software that manages tapes though. I have to "break the
> rotation" and have someone reset the next tape number. Not a big
> deal, just a pain. The alternative is putting in tapes myself
> everyday, and coming in on the weekends.
>
>> Anyway, real solutions ...
>>
>> Leave them in the holding disk?  Recoveries still work.  But of
>> course you have a smaller holding disk available -- still have
>> enough?  Then when their normal time comes around rm them and
>> maybe their index files.
>>
>> Alternatively, if one day's worth of runtapes (maybe 1 in your
>> case) will hold 3 days of backups, set autoflush to true in your
>> amanda.conf. I forget when it came in, but it was not available in
>> 2.4.2.  This will cause any backups on the holding disk to be
>> taped along with the current day's amdump.  Ironically this exact
>> thing is happening to me as I type. I forgot to change the
>> magazine in my changer to the next one and collected two dumps on
>> the holding disk.  I have runtapes set to 2 to handle just such
>> situations.  But it is no PITA, the tapes, and magazines, are just
>> used in rotation without regard to specific tapes for specific
>> days.
>
>I'm running 2.4.2 on Debian so no autoflush. I will just have to eat
> this one and hope they've got my tapes in proper rotation now. I'll
> set autoflush some sunny day, perhaps when the next Debian release
> is out.

Alternatively, you could go ahead and update the install to 
2.4.4p1-02030716, then when the time comes to do the housekeeping, rm 
the backups in the holding disk and the correct index files, then add 
that line to your amanda.conf.  At that point, the problem is 
self-healing should it occur again in the future.

Theres a fellow named Murphy (he wrote that law) that will see to it 
that it does happen again, he is in charge of tossing the coin for 
the occurance date of all things fubared. :-)

>Thanks for your input.

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