On Friday 14 April 2006 23:24, stan wrote: >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.
You can go ahead and write such a beast, but if the tapes are already labeled, amcheck can do that just fine. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
