Oliver, The simple answer is to use chg-manual, which waits for operator intervention. You will have to adjust a symlink as well as the disk connections.
If it is possible to script the disk switch, you should be able to write a changer script that does what you want. --Ian On Thursday 21 August 2008 08:55:26 Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I have a brand new Amanda server, that uses virtual tapes. > > My virtual tapes are set on external hard disks, but I can only > physically connect one disk at a time. > > I uses runtapes 5. > > So I can end up in a situation where I have 2 vtapes left one a disk, > and where I must change disk in the middle of a dump. > > I beleive this is close to the situation of a tape caroussel, where > one wants to reload the caroussel in the middle of a dump. > > I'd like to know if the model bellow makes sense with Amanda, does it > break the general idea or not? > > Will it work if I write a changer that would wait for manual change of > the disk? The dumps would finish to the holding disks and the taper > would wait for manual change of the disk before finishing to write on > the tape (wait would be several hours). > > I see that amcheck physically tries to access the tapes, so in a > situation with 2 tapes left on a disk and 3 tapes from the new disk, > amcheck would request the user tou change disk, that is not really > necessary, is there any other command that is likely to access the > changer (beside the amdump/amflush and restore). > > Is there a command to get the label of the tape loaded in the tape > device? > > Does it exist a changer that allow the manual change of a caroussel, > so I don't have to redesign everything from scratch? (I mean the > Amanda phylosophy, not the exact way to load/eject a caroussel or > mout/unmout a disk). > > Best regards, > > Olivier -- Wiki for Amanda documentation: http://wiki.zmanda.com/
