On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 10:28:06 -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > > A little later I will look for a reference to documentation on this, but > > in short: I believe the issue is that you are mixing the *name of the > > subdirectory* and the *amanda label of on the vtape*. > > It may look that way, but that is probably not what is happening. > "Mail.TCLC.org" is a component of the vtape path. "mail.tclc.org" is a > component of the config path. "Mail.TCLC.org.%%", a reflection of the > vtape path, is what I think I am trying to use as a label. I have no > idea of the significance of the label, but it occurs to me that > matching the tape label to its path is a good idea.
I actually wasn't trying to say anything one way or another about your config names or vtape labels, but rather was noticing that your amlabel slot option was not a number, and that you were trying to give "label-like" names to the vtape subdirectories. > > On the other hand, the subdirectories the chg-disk: changer uses to hold > > its vtapes are not really designed for direct human interaction... and > > they have a built-in naming pattern you can't change. > O.K., now we're getting somewhere, and explains why I couldn't find > how to change the names of the "slots". It can't be done! I didn't > expect that, but hearing it confirms my experience and probably > completely solves my problem. Thanks very much for this tid-bit. I > interpreted lack of explanation of how to change the names of the > slots to mean that it is either trivially simple or simply has been > ignored in the docs. Since it can't be done, the HowTo should probably > alerts fools like me to that fact. "Not documenting" is not the same > as "documenting don't". (-: So, you were following the the instructions found in the "Using the new chg-disk:' section of the How_To:Set_Up_Virtual_Tapes wiki page that Stefan mentioned earlier in this thread, right? https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_Virtual_Tapes#Using_the_new_chg-disk: As he mentioned that page has been around for a long time, but I've just edited the "new chg-disk" section to spell out the rules for the slot-directory names and also hopefully clarify the discussion a little bit and mention some related features available in newer version of Amanda. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
