Hello everybody,

I am new to Amanda. In company where I work as a Network Administrator, we have implemented an Amanda Backup System. The former admin has done all the work.
I have never configured/worked with amanda.
It seems I have a problem with tape changers and I can't find the solution.


Here I need your help.


I get the following error$amtape site_name current)
amtape: could not get changer info: cannot determine first slot


The report from Amanda looks like this:

*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [new tape not found in rack].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
The next new tape already labelled is: site_name01.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
server /home lev 3 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
server /home/samba/construction lev 3 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
server /home/samba/pub lev 2 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
server /home/samba/office lev 2 FAILED [no more holding disk space]
server /var/www lev 1 FAILED [no more holding disk space]

...............................................

etc
.................................................


The amanda.conf looks like this:


org "site_name" # your organization name for reports
mailto "amanda" # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpuser "amanda" # the user to run dumps under


inparallel 4 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
netusage 6000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec


dumpcycle 7 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 7 days # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
tapecycle 8 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation


bumpsize 20 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2
bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)


runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "/dev/nst0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
#rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
#changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer"
#changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status"
#changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf"
changerdev "/dev/sg0"



tapetype DellHW # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)
labelstr "^site_name[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must match

holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/cache" # where the holding disk is
use -30 Mb # how much space can we use on it
}

reserve 40 # percent

infofile "/var/lib/amanda/site_name/curinfo" # database filename
logdir "/var/log/amanda/site_name" # log directory




define tapetype DellHW {
comment "Dell Changer tested (hardware compression on)"
length 60000 mbytes
filemark 11 kbytes
speed 1322 kps
}

define dumptype global {
comment "Global definitions"
# This is quite useful for setting global parameters, so you don't have
# to type them everywhere. All dumptype definitions in this sample file
# do include these definitions, either directly or indirectly.
# There's nothing special about the name `global'; if you create any
# dumptype that does not contain the word `global' or the name of any
# other dumptype that contains it, these definitions won't apply.
# Note that these definitions may be overridden in other
# dumptypes, if the redefinitions appear *after* the `global'
# dumptype name.
# You may want to use this for globally enabling or disabling
# indexing, recording, etc. Some examples:
# index yes
# record no
}



define dumptype normal {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "normal backup behaviour"
compress none
index yes
record yes
priority medium
}



define dumptype homes {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "homes without samba"
compress none
index yes
record yes
priority medium
exclude "./samba"
}


What can I do ?



Thank you in advance,

Dan