On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:23:47AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > 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.
OK, taks acepted :-) It's the least I can do for all the time people have spent helping me. > > 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. OK, I think I'm going to go ahead and label all the vtapes/physical tapes, and then work on this, as it will minimize the variables. Seems reasonable, as it just adds a bit of overhead to the inital setup. I'll work on it next wek, then post the HOWTO here. Thanks, to you, and everyone else for all the help!! -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
