On 2008-06-24 13:49, Johan Booysen wrote:
Hi,
Looks like I'm getting somewhere this time. The server is happy with the two
tape drives emulating a changer with 2 slots, and all amtape commands seem to
complete ok.
Just one question before I do a test run:
Can I ignore the following warning about the second tape being "still active and
cannot be overwritten" when doing an amcheck?
No, you can't ignore that.
slot 1:read label `daily-5', date `20080508'.
..
..
slot 2:read label `daily-6', date `20080509'.
Tape with label daily-6 is still active and cannot be overwriten.
I'm assuming I can, since I double-checked that daily-6 is marked as "reuse" in
the tapelist.
The tapes are used by Amanda in an ordered rotation.
The tapecycle parameter defines the size of that rotation.
Amanda needs to be given the number specified in tapecycle
before she accepts to overwrite that tape again.
See "man amanda.conf", "tapecycle" for a more detailed explanation.
When you REALLY are sure you want Amanda to overwrite it,
you can "amrmtape" followed by "amlabel -f" (specifying
correct configs and labels).
Or you can (temporarily) lower the count given by
tapecycle in amanda.conf
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