I am trying to determine what tape order amanda uses when requesting a reuse tape.
My amanda.conf is configured to use slots 31-36 for my archive tapes. These slots contain the following tapes. Storage Element 31:Full :VolumeTag=A00224L2 Storage Element 32:Full :VolumeTag=A00225L2 Storage Element 33:Full :VolumeTag=A00226L2 Storage Element 34:Full :VolumeTag=A00221L2 Storage Element 35:Full :VolumeTag=A00222L2 Storage Element 36:Full :VolumeTag=A00223L2 When I run "amadmin archive tape" I get this order list. % amadmin archive tape The next Amanda run should go onto 6 new tapes. The next 6 new tapes already labelled are: A00221, A00222, A00224, A00225, A00226, A00223 When I run "amcheck -s archive" I get the following: % amcheck -s archive Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /zvol/amanda/holdingdisk/archive: 1918267 MB disk space available, using 921600 MB as requested slot ?: slot 13 not in use-slots (31-36) slot 31: volume 'A00224' Will write to volume 'A00224' in slot 31. NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Server check took 42.518 seconds For my archive run slot 31 is the first slot used by my archive run that has a reuse tape. I would really like to have my archive tape in the sequential order such as A00221, A00222, A00224, A00225, A00226, A00223, but amcheck tell me that it will start with what every tape is in slot 31, which happens to be A00224 and will use tapes in slot 31-36. Why the difference between the two command.? Other than moving my tapes around so that A00221 is in slot 31 and A00222 is in slot 32 and so on is there any other way to get the order I am after. I realize that tape order in a library does not really mean much but my archive tapes are removed and stored outside and I would like to have the archive run on tapes in a more human readable sequence. Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcg...@purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067