On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 12:10pm, Pierre-Henry DELIEGE wrote > My questions are about Amanda and the tpchanger functionality's: > After reading the different examples of tpchanger (chg-juke, chg-multi, > chg-scsi...), it looks like they were developed for "Stacker Drives"; for > example, you cannot specify on which drive you would like to mount a > cartridge (the only selection that I saw was to configure a range of slot > with a drive). > Also, the access of tapes is done via the slot position (slot "current", > "next", "prev", "first", "last"). The only solution that I see to use a > "normal" tape library usage (with barcode) is to create a table to make a > link between a "hypothetical" slot number and a barcode. Am I right ?
Not really. chg-zd-mtx allows random access to tapes. It's self-documented (in the chg-zd-mtx script itself) and (obviously) requires mtx to be installed and to support your changer. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
