From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 27, 2009 22:34
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:56:53PM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> > 
> > I suspect that part of my problem (probably a large part) is
> > conceptual. We have plenty of tape and processing time and I was
> > looking for a full backup on each amdump execution. I am not
> > really interested in doing full and incremental backups but I am
> > aware that this contrary to the "amanda" way of doing things. That
> > being said, I do not really see the
> 
> Not true, doing full backups every run is not uncommon.

That is good to hear. No if I could only figure out how to tell amanda
that.

> Have you determined that your tape changer script is functioning
> properly?  Look at amtape command and exercise that changer.
> Make sure you can select specific slots/tapes; can advance one
> slot; can advance one slot from the last position; can list the
> tapes; can load a specific tape; etc.

mtx and amtape seem to be working fine.

> You got stuck on tape five because your tapecycle is 2.  It must
> use another tape before reusing tape five and for some reason
> it isn't getting to another tape.  That is why I question the
> changer setup.

What should tapecycle be set to?

TIA

Regards, Hugh

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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com