On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 07:08:45PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-04-14 17:15, stan wrote: > >I'm having trouble adapting to life with a "tape changer". > >I'm used to Amanda with a single tape drive, and it seems to > >pretty much be ready for the next tape when I insert it. > > > >My new setup is RAIT with chg-multi (one side vtape, and the other > >a real tape drive). Has anyone worked out a way to make certain > >that the correct "slot" is selected? I am wondering if someone > >might have written a warper script for amtape? I've tried just > >putting "amtape config slot next" in my amdump wrapper script, > >but sometimes that's not really what needs to the done. For example, > >I put a new tape in yesterday, did a manual amtape next, and an > >amlabel. And forgot to do an amtape slot previous, so last nights > >dumps went to the holding disk, even though the correct tape > >was in the drive :-( > > The correct tape was in the physical drive, but on in the vtape > slot. So amanda wanted to verify the label, and noticed that > the rait broke (the mirror was incorrect). > > I guess you did some manipulations with half of the mirror, > because if you did a amlabel then both tapes should have > the same label. Is that what happened? > No, I pretty much shot myself in the foot. It's the first run through a set of 25 vtapes, and physical tapes. I did an amtape to advance to the next vatep position, did an amlabel, and _fogot_ to do an amtape slot prev, since the nightly amdump script (at present) does an amtape slot next.
What I would like to do is replace the amtape slot next in the amdump wrapper script to something a bit "smarter" that would hunt for the correct slot in the "changer". Where correct is defiend as the label that amdump is expecting next (or an unused label), _and_ where teh vtape lable matches what is in the physical tape drive assuming that that label fits the first critereia. I can probably write such a thing, but I was hoping that someone else might have already done sothing here. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
