On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > I now see a 'data' link to slot 5, I nuked that 2 days ago because nothing > was paying an attention to it, and neither amcheck nor amdump was updating > it, and the loss causes no errors, none, nada, zip. My helper script no > longer pays any attention to it either.
That's really weird. I can't replicate this behavior at all. Having reviewed the code, chg-disk actually looks at what the 'data' symlink is pointing to in order to determine the "current" slot. In particular, I don't see why amtape would set the symlink, but amcheck and amdump would not. Reasons I can think of off the top of my head: - permissions problems - wrapper scripts? - multiple copies of Amanda installed? - voodoo? Can you set up a smaller config without using your wrapper script and with a fresh set of vtapes and a simple DLE (/boot or something like that), and see how amtape and amcheck behave? Don't run amdump.. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
