On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:21:22AM -0400, stan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:46:52AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 at 5:24am, stan wrote > > > > >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:20:16AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > >>You can go ahead and write such a beast, but if the tapes are already > > >>labeled, amcheck can do that just fine. > > > > > >Mmm, as far as I know amcheck can tell me if the correct tape is loaded, > > >but I'll stil need to write something that will run amcheck, check the > > >results of it (does it return a status or do I have to check the text > > >it outputs), then run amtape next slot, check again, and loop untill > > >it gets a good status (or has checked all slots). > > > > With my changer (and chg-zd-mtx), amtape will scan through all available > > slots until it finds (or doesn't) the tape with the label it's expecting. > > > Cool, perhaps mine will work that way if I label all the tapes? > I'm using cchg-multi with each "slot" consisting of a RAIT of 1 vatpe, > one physical tape. The tape drive is a single tape unit, not a changer. > What amtape command are you issuing? None of the ones listed in the man > page seem to request this, as far as I can tell. >
Stan, you are trekking through basically uncharted waters. - RAIT is not new, but was seldom used til recently with vtape/tape combos - vtape is fairly new, and so are changers for vtape - the combination of a RAIT with changer for vtape and no changer, or manual changer, for physical tape is certainly new to me. Some of us may be looking to you for the HOW-TO for some of these combinations. You need a more intelligent wrapper, so you will have to author it yourself. Just a couple of points. Amanda has a facility to inquire what tape it expects next. I forget what it is, seldom used it. Probably one of the amadmin options. You will have to check the labels of the two drives separately since I don't think there is any single RAIT changer script. I could be wrong there. I suggest you not hard code the device names but query or parse the configuration files. Maybe amgetconf has needed options. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
