How to use chg-manual

[kcleal]

Hi,
Im just starting out with amanda and am having some issues getting a manual tape change to work. I have followed advice from #81 , but still run into issues. I have a 30 Tb volume and 18 Tb tapes (single tape drive). Here is my config file:

# Directories
infofile "/home/amandabackup/state/curinfo"
logdir "/home/amandabackup/state/log"
indexdir "/home/amandabackup/state/index"

# Tape management
tapedev "/dev/st0"
tpchanger "chg-single:/dev/st0"
runtapes 2
labelstr "BLA[0-9][0-9][0-9]"
autolabel "BLA%%%" EMPTY VOLUME_ERROR

device_property "LEOM" "TRUE"

tapetype LTO-9
define tapetype LTO-9 {
    length 18 Tb
    filemark 4 kb
    part_size 900 Gb  # 1/20 of tape size (18 Tb)
    part_cache_type disk
    part_cache_dir "/home/amandabackup/part_cache"
    part_cache_max_size 500 Gb  # Adjust based on available disk space
}


define interactivity "email-change" {
  comment "Send email to have tapes swapped"
  plugin "email"
  property "mailto" "clealk@cardiff.ac.uk"
  property "resend-delay" "43200"
}

interactivity "email-change"


define taperscan lexical-scan {
  plugin "lexical"
}
taperscan "lexical-scan"


# Dump definitions
define dumptype simple-gnutar-local {
    auth "local"
    compress NONE
    program "GNUTAR"
    # change to this once full backup has been performed?
    #strategy incronly
    strategy standard
    allow-split yes
}

# Holding disk configuration
holdingdisk hd1 {
    comment "10 GB fast PCIe-SSD for staging backups"
    directory "/home/amandabackup/holding"
    use 500 Gb
    chunksize 1 Gb
}

# Backup definition
define application-tool app_bairdlab {
    plugin "gnutar"
    property "GNUTAR-PATH" "/bin/tar"
    property "ONE-FILE-SYSTEM" "yes"
    property "SPARSE" "no"
}

I pre-labelled 4 tapes using amlabel (BLA001 - BLA004) to make sure I have enough. I inserted BLA001 and started amdump. Everything progresses as expected until the tape runs out of space. The full tape is ejected automatically, I then inserted the next tape BLA002. However, the amdump command exits straight away and I see this in the log:

....
SUCCESS dumper localhost /etc/amanda 20240918145501 0 bfe8409c:20480 bfe8409c:20480 [sec 1.060 kb 20 kps 18.9 orig-kb 20]
SUCCESS chunker localhost /etc/amanda 20240918145501 0 bfe8409c:20480 [sec 1.049031 kb 20 kps 19.065214]
STATS driver estimate localhost /etc/amanda 20240918145501 0 [sec 0 nkb 52 ckb 64 kps 1024]
INFO chunker pid-done 31246
INFO dumper gzip pid 31278
START taper datestamp 20240918145501 "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" label BLA001 tape 1
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 1 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 1/-1 0 [sec 7755.526272 bytes 966367641600 kps 121683.347706]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 2 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 2/-1 0 [sec 7629.796365 bytes 966367641600 kps 123688.543554]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 3 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 3/-1 0 [sec 7748.405072 bytes 966367641600 kps 121795.181232]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 4 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 4/-1 0 [sec 7892.052903 bytes 966367641600 kps 119578.316517]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 5 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 5/-1 0 [sec 7497.198881 bytes 966367641600 kps 125876.132537]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 6 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 6/-1 0 [sec 7448.204837 bytes 966367641600 kps 126704.141555]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 7 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 7/-1 0 [sec 7460.200738 bytes 966367641600 kps 126500.403024]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 8 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 8/-1 0 [sec 7493.623331 bytes 966367641600 kps 125936.193790]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 9 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 9/-1 0 [sec 7473.471328 bytes 966367641600 kps 126275.777156]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 10 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 10/-1 0 [sec 7493.154280 bytes 966367641600 kps 125944.077052]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 11 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 11/-1 0 [sec 7519.775807 bytes 966367641600 kps 125498.209551]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 12 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 12/-1 0 [sec 7490.582991 bytes 966367641600 kps 125987.309817]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 13 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 13/-1 0 [sec 7518.618794 bytes 966367641600 kps 125517.522015]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 14 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 14/-1 0 [sec 7538.838483 bytes 966367641600 kps 125180.875294]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 15 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 15/-1 0 [sec 7504.140477 bytes 966367641600 kps 125759.692651]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 16 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 16/-1 0 [sec 7444.603412 bytes 966367641600 kps 126765.436353]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 17 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 17/-1 0 [sec 7503.726602 bytes 966367641600 kps 125766.629044]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 18 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 18/-1 0 [sec 7488.511611 bytes 966367641600 kps 126022.158878]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 19 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 19/-1 0 [sec 7478.955564 bytes 966367641600 kps 126183.180516]
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA001 20 localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 20/-1 0 [sec 1864.160304 bytes 242869370880 kps 127230.002426]
INFO taper tape BLA001 Barcode  kb 18167826720 fm 20 [OK]
INFO taper Slot 1 with label BLA001 is usable
INFO taper Slot 1 without label can be labeled
INFO taper Slot 1 without label can be labeled
INFO taper Slot 1 without label can be labeled
...
INFO taper Slot 1 without label can be labeled
INFO taper Slot 1 without label can be labeled
INFO taper Slot 1 with label BLA002 is usable
START taper datestamp 20240918145501 "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" label BLA002 tape 2
PARTIAL taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 20 0 00000000:0 00000000:0 00000000:0 [sec 163806.000000 bytes 18603854561280 kps 110910.630380] "shm-ring cancelled"
PART taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" BLA002 1 localhost /etc/amanda 20240918145501 1/-1 0 [sec 1.869904 bytes 20480 kps 10.695736 orig-kb 20]
DONE taper "ST:BairdLabA" "POOL:BairdLabA" localhost /etc/amanda 20240918145501 1 0 bfe8409c:20480 bfe8409c:20480 bfe8409c:20480 [sec 2.000000 bytes 20480 kps 10.000000 orig-kb 20]
FAIL driver localhost /media/baird_A 20240918145501 0 [out of holding space in degraded mode]
INFO taper tape BLA002 Barcode  kb 20 fm 1 [OK]

Ok so next I tried restarting amdump with the BLA002 tape in the drive, however the BLA002 tape gets ejected immediately. What do I do? I want to finish the backup on the BLA002 tape.