A while back one of my small older drives containing
vtapes failed. I replaced it and its twin with larger
drives. I moved the still good vtapes from the good
twin to the new drives, created empty vtapes for the
lost backups from the crashed drive, and added a good
number of new vtapes.
However, none of the previously unused vtapes are
being used by amanda and I can not figure out why.
Here are relevant entries from my current tape list.
20171227025501 DS1-018 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1
...
20170705025501 DS1-019 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1
20170627205502 DS1-009 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1
...
20170618085502 DS1-209 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1
20170618025502 DS1-208 reuse BLOCKSIZE:32 POOL:DS1 STORAGE:DS1 CONFIG:DS1
DS1-018 is the vtape it used last night, 019 will be
used tonight. DS1-208 is at the bottom of the list
and amanda is skipping all 40 tapes between it and
DS1-009.
There are 3 ways to check what tapes will be used.
However their results differ.
$ amanda amadmin DS1 tape
The next Amanda should go onto tape DS1-208 or a new tape.
tape DS1-209 or a new tape.
tape DS1-210 or a new tape.
$ amanda amtape DS1 taper
slot 19: volume 'DS1-019'
Will write to volume 'DS1-019' in slot 19.
$ amcheck DS1
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
NOTE: Holding disk '/amanda/Holding': 293752 MB disk space available, using
293652 MB
slot 19: volume 'DS1-019'
Will write to volume 'DS1-019' in slot 19.
[ looks the same as amtape ]
Any clues as to why the 40+ tapes are not being used?
Why do amadmin and amtape/amcheck use different
algorithms when looking up the next tape(s) to be used?
Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie [email protected]
11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H)
Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
