Re: Tape order

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:26:49 -0700 

% 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
Ha, they are new tapes, there is no order for new tape, amanda use the first one. 
Put them in the changer in the oreder you want them to be used.

Jean-Louis


On 07/07/2011 04:39 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:

I usually do that just sliped my mind.

My setup is

I am running Amanda-3.2.3 on a Solaris 10 X86 host and I have changer defined as

define changer "c4" {
   tpchanger "chg-robot:/dev/changer/0"
   changerfile "chg-zd-mtx-state"
   property "tape-device" "0=tape:/dev/rmt/0cbn"
   property "eject-before-unload" "true"
   property "eject-delay" "10"
   property "unload-delay" "10"
   property "use-slots" "31-36"
   property "load-poll" "0s poll 5s until 120s"
   device-property "BLOCK_SIZE" "1024k"
   device-property "LEOM" "true"
}



-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:20 PM
To: McGraw, Robert P
Cc: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: Tape order


Always post which amanda release you are using!

Try chg-robot for your changer.

Jean-Louis

On 07/07/2011 02:21 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:

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.?

amadmin list the order in which the tape should be used.
amcheck  list the first tape it will use, it is your responsibility to
but the tape you want in the correct slot
chg-zd-mtx do not use the barcode, that's why the fiorst slot is always
used.

Jean-Louis

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