Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 09:47 -0400 schrieb Jon LaBadie:

> > I'm running weekly backups with two cycles a week. Here are my settings
> > in amanda.conf:
> > 
> > ----------------------------
> > dumpcycle 7  
> > runspercycle 2 
> > tapecycle 10 tapes 
> > runtapes 5
> > tpchanger "chg-disk"
> > ----------------------------

> This message typically is caused by the tapelist file containing
> fewer reusable tapes than "tapecycle", 10 in your case.
Perhaps I misunderstood the meaning of tapecycle. I've thought that when I am 
running 2 dumps a week using the maximum of 5 tapes per run a tapecycle of 10 
tapes is enough for one week. Up to now I needed a maximum number of three 
tapes per dump.
What will happen when 6 tapes were used in week 1 for backup and next
week 4 new tapes remains for an new dumpcycle? Will amanda use 4 new
tapes and 2 old tapes? If it is so, why do I get this error message from
amanda. Sorry, but I'm still a little bit confused.

> Beyond that, your configuration has potential "gotcha's".
> When your tapecycle is exactly the number needed for one
> dumpcycle, you are always overwriting tapes needed for
> the one and only dumpcycle you have available. 
OK. This would be a problem.

-- 
Regards

Thomas