Re: cartridges requested out of order?

andreas fuchs <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:55:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.afbackup.general
Message-ID <86k765yz6u.wl%[email protected]>
On 2003-11-08, andreas fuchs <[email protected]> wrote:
> We always used the cartridges in numerical order and there are no
> extra precious tapes for any clients (afaict), so I'd expect that
> afbackup expires & re-uses cartridges in the same order.
[...]
> ikarus:/opt/afbackup/server# cat  var/precious_tapes 
> ikarus 6-9,18,11-12
> marx 10-23,1,3-8
> maxwell 4-8,18,11-12
> minos 5-9,18,11-12
>
> Why does it want cartridge 2, then? Of course, it isn't precious,
> but 13 isn't, either!  I'd really prefer not having to travel to the
> tape changer during weekends, so any help is appreciated (-:

Yeah, um. Turns out that I had read the "10-23" as "10-13", with which
the above would have made sense. I think it's time to have a full
backup run on marx. (-:

Thanks anyway,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, <[email protected]>, [email protected], antifuchs


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