I'm running 3.3.6 (but could easily upgrade if it would help). For a long time I've been wondering about amanda's behaves when I have a tapecycle larger than the number of tapes in my barcode-supporting library and all of the tapes in the library have been recently written. When the next tape in the cycle isn't in the library, amanda will attempt to load and scan every single tape in the library, even though it should be able to tell immediately that the tape it wants isn't there just by the barcodes. Unfortunately this takes about 70 minutes. (Tandberg T24 library with 22 occupied slots. My tapecycle is 88 tapes.)
So basically if I know it's tape day and I happen to not get to it before amcheck runs, I potentially have a 70 minute wait before I can do anything, even though all of the necessary information is already available. I know amanda can properly talk to the barcode reader because it can directly load a tape by barcode. All listings in tapelist have the barcode present. Is this the expected behavior or have I perhaps missed a setting? - J<
