Re: How do you stop Amanda overwriting a tape?

Errm,

Therre seems to be something broken in your weekly and Pedcentconfiguration.the regexpressions giving the labels for "weekly" and "Pedcent" shouldbe choosen in a way that "Pedcent" tapes are not accepted by "weekly"and vice versa. And make shure the two configs don't share the tapelist.

Then you get exactly the behavior you want.
i would suggest putting something like

labelstring  "Peg[0-9].[0-9]*"

in the amanda.conf of your Pedcent-config and

labelstring  "Fri[0-9].[0-9]*"

in the weekly amanda.conf. I use

labelstring  "Weekly[0-9]*"

for my weekly-tapes, but thats my way of doing this....
Christoph

Ranveer Attalia schrieb:

I schedule a full backup of our servers on Fridays which is part of the

"Weekly" amanda config. I also schedule a separate full backup of our
critical server called Pedcent on Sundays which is part of the "Pedcent"
amanda config:

$ crontab -l

00 22 * *  1-4 /opt/amanda/sbin/ambackup Daily >>
/tmp/ambackup_Daily.log 2>&1
00 21 * * 5 /opt/amanda/sbin/ambackup Weekly >> /tmp/ambackup_Weekly.log
2>&1
00 14 * *  0 /opt/amanda/sbin/ambackup Pedcent >>
/tmp/ambackup_Pedcent.log 2>&1

Hence the tapes I put into the jukebox on Fridays are as follows:Slot 1: Fri3.1

Slot 2: Fri3.2
Slot 3: Peg0.1

where Peg0.1 is used for the "Pedcent" full backup. Evey Monday I

receive 2 emails. One telling me that the "Weekly" was successful and
the other telling me that "Pedcent" was successful. Here is where the
BUT comes in......

After doing a recent system disk restore I noticed that when searching

for a server to restore from the "Weekly" disklist, it told me to load
the Fri3.1 tape. When I read it however, it was displaying all of
"Pedcent" partitions. This means that it had actually overwritten the
first tape. Did this happen because there wasnt enough room on the
Peg0.1 tape so it just went to Fri3.1 ? (there is plenty of room on the
Peg0.1 tape by the way)

Is there a way that Amanda will request a new tape to be loaded if it

reaches to the end of its assigned tape, without going off and
overwriting a previous one?

Thanks- Ranveer

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