> > Hi! > > We're currently running Amanda to daily backup our server > system. As we > hand-exchange the tape every day, I've a question regarding > speeding up this > tedious task. > > How is the most elegent way to get amanda to auto-eject the > tapes after it ran > a dump? > > Would be also a nice easy in organisation, as you would see > with one glimpse > at the tape-server if the backup ran correcty, since then the > tape would be > ejected. Or you can easily see if not another has already > exchanged the tape, > if it is inserted it has already been swaped. > > Fellow greetings, > Axel
Not sure about 'elegance' - but I run my amdump from a script that cron calls... #!/bin/sh mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind su amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/amdump <configname>" mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoff
