Thanks for the help that fixed the problem. Based on your reply though it seems I had my cycles incorrect. I changed them to your recommendation, however, what I am trying to achieve is a 1 week cycle where there is a full backup on Sundays and incremental throughout the week. I thought the Amanda schedule did this by default when you setup the cycles correctly(which I now have done) Am I wrong?
Also, I saw no mention of the levels for the dumps in the man page for Amanda. Where can I find more information about these levels? Thanks, Michael Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer http://www.urbancom.net Urban Communications, Inc. Phone: 708-687-2090 Cell: 708-243-2850 "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." - The Tao of Programming ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: Re: Tape rotation problem? > > > --On Thursday, May 02, 2002 07:29:30 -0500 Michael Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have amanda cofigured to use the tapeio code. I am running amanda-2.4.3b3 > > on all servers and clients. Attached is my amanda.conf and my changer.conf. > > Here is what amcheck reports: > > > > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > > ----------------------------- > > Holding disk /backups: 210982006 KB disk space available, using 210982006 KB > > amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20020422 label DailySet107 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20020502 label DailySet101 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20020422 label DailySet102 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20020422 label DailySet103 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20020426 label DailySet104 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20020427 label DailySet105 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20020430 label DailySet106 (active tape) > > ERROR: new tape not found in rack > > (expecting a new tape) > > NOTE: skipping tape-writable test > > Server check took 0.582 seconds > > > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > -------------------------------- > > Client check: 4 hosts checked in 0.103 seconds, 0 problems found > > > > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3b3) > > > > How do I get amanda to automattically resuse the tapes? > > Change your config and/or get more tapes. In your amanda.conf you have: > > dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > runspercycle 20 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) > tapecycle 25 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation > > You are saying you only need one level 0 every 4 weeks (dumpcycle) and > during that time Amanda runs 20 times (runspercycle) using a set of > 25 tapes (tapecycle). Since your changer is defined with 7 slots and > Amanda has now used all those tapes, it is looking for the 8th tape > which doesn't exist in the changer. It will later want tapes 9 - 25 > before it will overwrite tape 1. > If you really have 25 tapes, then you should put tapes 8 - 15 into > your changer in place of tapes 1 - 7. > If you really have only seven tapes then I would suggest changing > the dumpcyle to 1 week, runspercycle to 5, and tapecycle to 7. If > a daily run doesn't fit on one tape, then you would need more tapes. > Actually, you need more tapes anyway so you would have more than one > level 0 of a disk on tape in case of a read error during a restore. > > Frank > > -- > Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 > Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501 >
