> On Jul 9, 2016, at 2:58 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 2016-07-06 um 20:41 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 2016-07-06 um 20:33 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: >>> The dles with 'AUTO' holdingdisk should be dumped to holding disk. >>> >>> Can you post the amdump log file? >> >> I will do as soon we tested an amdump with the tape removed. >> Might take a day, it's evening here in europe and the admin is at home >> already, as far as I know ;-) > > > That test has to wait until monday. > > Asked in general: > > is it recommended or necessary to run "amtape $myconf update" every time the > admin loads the library's magazines with fresh tapes? >
I’ve found it not necessary. As long as the machine has SEEN those tapes before (and it must have, since you had to load them to put a label on them) AND as long as you have a barcode reader, it’ll recognize them. Actually, even without the barcode reader, it’ll recognize them when it loads them, but it might have to mount each one when you’ve asked for a restore & a particular tape is required. With a barcode reader, it should already know which slot that barcode is in, and will have stored info about “BARCODE XYZZY means tape DAILY-XYZZY” (or however your barcodes correspond to your actual tape labels. Deb
