* Ochressandro Rettinger <[email protected]> [20160722 12:04]:
> On the subject of changing the taperscan, how do you do that? I tried
> seeing if that would have an effect on my chg-rait problem by adding the line
>
> taperscan oldest
>
> to my amanda.conf, but when I ran amcheck afterwards, Amanda
> complained:
>
> amcheck: "/etc/amanda/NMHPVPR/amanda.conf", line 11: Unknown taperscan named:
> oldest
>
> but I couldn't find any documentation that explicitly said how to
> change the taperscan algorithm.
>
> -Sandro
Please, do not hijack threads!
man amanda-taperscan is what you need to read.
In amanda.conf use something like:
define taperscan "old" {
plugin "oldest"
}
taperscan "old"
cheers,
jf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Stefan G. Weichinger
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 4:52 AM
> To: Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this
>
> Am 2016-07-20 um 19:09 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau:
> > May I suggest: autolabel "$m-$3s" any
> >
> > Install the new aggregate.pm and apply the Changer.diff to the
> > Changer.pm file.
> >
> > Your problem is because the 'traditional' taperscan fail when it try
> > to load the current slot.
> > The workaround is to use the 'oldest' or 'lexical' taperscan.
> >
> > The meta label for a disk should never change (unless the state file
> > is removed), there is a bug somewhere if it happen again.
> >
>
> Jean-Louis,
>
> what are your further plans with this?
> Will you add the mentioned property?
> Will it get into amanda-3.3.10?
> Should I write a small howto for the wiki or so?
>
>
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Jean-Francois Malouin | IT Operations and Infrastructure
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre | MNI | McGill University
