On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:01:43AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:45:22PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > What is the purpose of "dating" the tape. > > To prevent it from being immediately requested. > > > I presume 0 indicates not yet used. > > Doesn't amanda accept a "new" tape at anytime? > > Yes. However, in the example presented, the new tape was #6 and we > wanted to use #4 next. Since amanda doesn't like reusing old tapes when > new tapes are available, #6 needs to be dated manually so that #4 and > #5 will be used first.
I'm on really shakey ground here, meaning I've never tested it, but I don't think amanda goes looking for new tapes anywhere in the list. I think it looks at the tape available in the drive, then checks whether it is a valid tape to use. Then the date comes into play. That is "date" or "new" comes into play. If I'm correct, then the new tapes position in the list won't matter as long as amanda sees the tapes in the correct order in the drive itself. Again, if I'm correct (and I'm not certain), the advantage of dating the new tapes is to prevent accidentally using them out of order. But as long as you present #4 and #5 to amanda first, it won't reject them and go looking for that #6 just because it is new. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
