On Sunday 31 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
>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?
>
The number of tapes available for amanda to use.

>TIA
>
>Regards, Hugh


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