On Mon, 7 May 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >I am using the 'stctl' package to interface between the various Amanda
> >applications and the autochanger robotics.
>
> Huh? What is tpchanger set to in amanda.conf? What are the in changer
> configuration files?
Ok, 'tpchanger' is set to 'stc-changer', which is a small script that's
part of Eric Berggren's 'stctl' Solaris Tape-Changer Control package
available from "http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~eric/stctl";. It doesn't used a
changer config file as such.
I've put the 'stc-changer' script in the appropriate place for tape
changer scripts and edited the small configuration section at the top of
the script to suit my setup.
> >dumpcycle 4 weeks ...
> >runspercycle 20 ...
> >tapecycle 10 tapes ...
>
> This is a very bad combination. How do you expect to fit 20 runs on
> 10 tapes?
8-) Good point. I guess it makes more sense to set 'tapecycle' and
'runspercycle' both to 10. I was just picking some numbers which seemed ok
at the time.
> >As you can see, 'tapecycle' it set to 10. ...
>
> Which is irrelevant to the changer. It does not care about tapecycle.
> More interesting would be runtapes, but I doubt even that matters.
I've got that set to 1 (so it only uses one tape per 'amdump' run).
Regards,
Craig.
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