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Asking for new tapes when an old tape should be available

2007-12-28 12:25:54
Subject: Asking for new tapes when an old tape should be available
From: brandon.saunders AT bcsengineering DOT com
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:15:35 -0500
I got into a situation where I missed tape changes for a few days, so my 
backups we put to the holding disk.  In the process of dumping the data I 
inadvertently dumped two days to the same tape when messed up my tape pattern.  
To fix that I decided to mark the corresponding unneed tape (107) as no-reuse.  
After that Amanda insists on having a new tape, instead of the next one in line 
(108).  I have reset 107 to be reusable, but amanda wont go back and reuse it 
now either.

This has happened to me before and the only way I found to fix it then was to 
remove and re-add all of the tapes, which is an arduous processes since I have 
to change the manually.

I am running amanda 2.4.4p3 which is provided with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.

Any thoughts on how I can fix this without messing with all of my tapes?

Thank you,

Brandon Saunders
Partner/Engineer
<http://www.BCSEngineering.com>

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