Yes, I do have 35 tapes labeled. 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dege, Robert C." <robert.dege AT ngc DOT com> 
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:03:03 -0700 
To: 'Jay Ted' <jayted AT linuxmail DOT org>, amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
Subject: RE: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes 
 
>  
> I'm just thinking out loud here ..... 
>  
> In your amanda.conf, you show "tapecycle 35 tapes", but do you actually have 
> 35 tapes labeled & listed in tapelist? 
>  
> I ran into this problem with amanda at one point.  I had tapecycle 40, but 
> only had 20 tapes labeled.  As a result, 
> amanda was looking for the 21st tape, instead of looping back to tape #1.  
> Lowering the tapecycle to 20 fixed the 
> problem. 
>  
> -Rob 
>  
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> > [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:38 AM 
> > To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> > Subject: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes 
> >  
> >  
> > Am I missing something really easy here....  
> >   
> > I have 35 tapes in rotation with a Dell Powervault 120T 7  
> > tape autochanger.  
> >   
> > Usually the backups only take about 2 or 3 tapes, I have  
> > runtapes set to 4 just in case.  This is still a work in  
> > progress.  The problem that I am having is that when amanda  
> > uses the the last set of tapes (DailyDLT-29-35)  
> > and the next available tapes (DailyDLT-01-07) are loaded,  
> > amanda thinks they are active and refuses to use them.  For  
> > example, even though the tape list shows an entry like  
> > "20040801 DailyDLT-01 reuse " well over  
> > the 7 day dumpcycle and not even containing data that is  
> > needed for a full dump, amanda still thinks the tape is  
> > active and won't use it.  For a workaround i keep having to  
> > amrmtape and amlabel to relabel it and set  
> > tapelist right- I know I must be missing something simple...   
> > Am I correct in understanding that by setting the dumpcycle  
> > to one week that amanda should happily reuse any tape older  
> > than seven days provided there  
> > were not any errors in the previous weeks run?  
> >   
> > Here's an excerpt from my amanda.conf:  
> > dumpcycle 7 days   
> > runspercycle 7        
> > tapecycle 35 tapes  
> > bumpsize 20 Mb      
> > bumpdays 1             
> > bumpmult 4              
> > etimeout -3600   
> > dtimeout 1800    
> > ctimeout 1300  
> > tapebufs 20  
> > runtapes 4        
> >   
> > Thanks for any help!!  
> >   
> > Jay  
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