On Wednesday 03 November 2004 04:43, Griffiths, Alan wrote: >That's how I thought it worked, but > >amtape <config> show
IIRC this reports only that which has been labeled and is in the tapelist. >never shows more than tapecycle slots in the changer. So as far I > can see there is no way to reference slot tapecycle+1, tapecycle+2 > etc. For example, > >amtape <config> label <tapecycle+1> > >Returns > >amtape: could not find label <tapecycle+1> in tape rack. > >Even though a vtape with that label exists. If I extend tapecycle so > that new_tapecycle=old_tapecycle+1 then the previous command will > correctly load the specified tape. > >Am I missing something? > It sounds as if you will have to extend the tapecycle after having marked a current vtape as no-reuse. Or, rather than marking it no-reuse and going to all that folderol, since its just a dir on that partition, just rename it out of the current slotnn nameing scheme. Frankly, amanda doesn't make this part brain dead easy, and probably for a good reason. I think, rather than involve amanda in it I'd do it all by hand by just renameing that slot to foo.save, mkdir a new slotnn, and copy the first 00000-labelnn carrying file over from the foo.save dir to the new slotnn directory, and the TAPE_END_file too but rename the 000nn-TAPEEND to 00001-TAPEEND as you copy it. I *think* this will fool amanda into thinking its empty and can be used when its turn comes up, but please don't shoot the messenger if it doesn't quite work. :) >-----Original Message----- >From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 02 November 2004 16:01 >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: Re: Chg-disk question > > >Hi, Alan, > >on Dienstag, 02. November 2004 at 12:26 you wrote to amanda-users: > >GA> Can anyone explain how chg-disk works? I'm a bit confused. As I >GA> understand it the number of slots in the vchanger is determined > by GA> the tapecycle option. This means that if I remove a tape > from the GA> cycle with amadmin no-reuse there will be insufficient > tapes in the GA> cycle. However, I sometimes need to take certain > 'tapes' out of the GA> cycle for a bit. Is this possible using > chg-disk? > >The number of vtapes has to be equal or bigger that the parameter > tapecycle. You could create some more vtapes, this does not matter > to AMANDA. > >So if you want to mark up to 3 vtapes as "no-reuse" at a time and > have a tapecycle of 10, go and create at least 13 vtapes. Just make > sure that you have at least "tapecycle" vtapes that are marked > reusable all the time. > >Ok? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
