We have Amanda 2.6.1 up and running for about a year now on an HP
DL380G5 running RHEL 5.5 and using an HP MSL2024 tape library. We
have plenty of time and tape so we have been running full backups
nightly (no incremental). We have two sets of tapes, DailySet1 and
WeeklySet1. DailySet1 has 5 tapes (DS1-01 through DS1-05) and runs
Sunday night through Thursday night. WeeklySet1 has 8 tapes (WS1-01
through WS1-0
and runs on Friday night only. The DailySet1 tapes
remain on site but we manually rotate the WeeklySet1 tapes off-site.
Recently we had a problem with the MSL2024 (specifically with the
robotic mechanism). Amanda was able to detect and report the issue
but it was unable to perform the backup (surprise, surprise). The
MSL2024 has been repaired (the chassis was replaced) but unbeknownst
to me the DS1-01 tape was left in the robotic mechanism. This was,
of course, the next tape that Amanda was looking for and the first
backup after the MSL2024 was repaired failed because it could not
find the tape. I thought "no problem" while I had someone go looking
for the missing tape I thought all I had to do was remove the tape
from the set (i.e. amrmtape DailySet1 DS1-01) and let Amanda carry
on without it. Wrong! Amanda is now reporting "*** A TAPE ERROR
OCCURRED: [Could not find a tape to use]".
This leads me to a couple of, hopefully, straight forward questions
that I have not been able to find answers for:
1. What is the correct method of removing a tape from a set and
ensuring that Amanda will use the next one in the sequence?
2. What is the correct method of adding the tape back into the set
and, hopefully, in the same order as before? Call me peculiar but
I am partial to processing the tapes in numerical order (i.e. 1,
2, 3, 4, 5).
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated even if it is just pointing
me to a web page that may have missed in my search for answers.
TIA
Regards, Hugh
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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com
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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com
