Hello all: I'm running Amanda 3.4.5 server on Centos, and backing up linux clients.
My tapechanger stanza in Amanda.conf reads: tpchanger "chg-disk:/Amanda/vtapes" property "num-slot" "30" property "auto-create-slot" "yes" labelstr "NBdata[0-9][0-9]" autolabel "NBdata%%" EMPTY VOLUME_ERROR tapecycle 30 dumpcycle 14 amrecover_changer "changer" When I first started doing amdumps, I didn't manually create any slot directories because I thought the "auto-create-slot" entry would do this for me. But Amanda seemed to have a problem and would not create slot directories. So I manually created 32 slots, and Amanda is happy to create tapes under them. But as I do manual amdumps to learn a bit about how things work, Amanda seems to use a new slot for each invocation. At this rate, I'll run out of pre-allocated slots before I get two dumpcycle's worth of backups done. Maybe when Amanda gets to slot 32, it will start over making a new tape under slot 0, and things will be fine. But any advice here is appreciated. Thanks....Lyle
