On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Sven Rudolph wrote: > Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:42:02PM +0200, Sven Rudolph wrote: > > > > This seems to assume that the tapes are in consecutive > > > slots. (amverify seems to have this limit, and amverifyrun does not > > > work around this.) > > > > > > > As amverifyrun is simply a shell script that calls amverify telling > > it the number of tapes, it is not surprising that it would suffer > > the same defects. > > > > Is there a way, other than "amtape ... show" to get a list of the > > tapes currently in the changer? I'd like to think there was an > > alternative to going through each slot individually unless necessary. > > > > I can imagine a way to modify amverifyrun to call amverify to do > > specific slots one at a time. However, it would take knowledge of > > what tapes are in the changer. > > IMHO "amtape label" should be sufficient. So you only need the labels > of the tapes that were written today. Then you can insert them with > "amtape label". (This needs some kind of barcode support (real or > emulated).)
Ahh, another of those commands and options I did not realized existed. Never had a barcode reader nor used a changer script that emulated one. :(( Might be a reason to switch to one. Does chg-zd-mtx "effectively", in peoples opinions, emulate one? I.e. does it maintain a list of tapes and use it to randomly go to the correct slot with "amtape label tape-name" If so, I may take a shot at updating amverifyrun. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
