Is the modification date on the tapelist file changing?  If the entries
in the tapelist are not keeping up with the Amanda processes, then this
implies that something is preventing Amanda from keeping the tapelist
up to date.  One thing occurs to me, check the permissions on the config
directory, if it is read-only or owned and writable only by root, then 
Amanda cannot manipulate the files necessary to change the tapelist.

It's the little things that get you,

Don

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail:  Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Lucio [mailto:lucio AT pixel DOT it]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:38 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: [UPDATE] How to control which tape is next?


> > Check to see if some problem has truncated your tapelist file.  If a
> > problem (e.g., no space left on a device) prevents the tapelist from
> > being created or some other problem truncated the file, then you
> > could expect to see a problem like this.  Check to see if there have
> > been any drive faults or other system events at the time when Amanda
> > started giving you strange results.
>
> I have created a patch, which seems not yet included in the current
> sources, for similar errors:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-hackers/message/3769
>
> (but it seems that this is not the problem, as Lucio seems to indicate
> that there ARE enough entries in the tapelist file.  Maybe a permission
> problem?  Or looking at a file with the same name but not the one
> as configured in amanda.conf?)
>

The file is not truncated nor there are permission problems. There are five 
entries in the tapelist file and tapecycle is set to five tapes. Every entry

matches the labelstr and every entry is marker as "reuse". The only strange 
thing is that the timestamp for each entry dates back to several days ago 
while the backup is due every night and the backup reports tell everything
is 
ok every morning.

There is a write permission problem on amanda.conf (root.root rw-r--r--),
but 
I guess this has nothing to do with the tapelist, right?




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