> In your case, though (i.e. with a fixed set of always-available slot > directories), it certainly makes sense to set up an obvious 1-1 mapping > between labels and slots, so that you don't have to think about or go > hunting to figure out which vtape holds a particular label. Amanda > won't care about that (it will always look on the vtape and check the > label found there before doing anything else), but it'll make your life > slightly easier on those situations where you need to go look at the raw > dump files or whatever.
Although it seems a good policy to map a one to one slot and label, in the long run, it may not be so. For example, I have retired some old disks and replaced them by new ones. The new disks would endup with the same slot numbers as the disks they replace. But I have created new labels and marked the previous labels as "noreuse". That way, I still have the data on the old disks, and Amanda still keeps a track of what is in those old labels and I could remount the disk and access the files if needed. (BTW, I am using an homemade changer, that splits the virtual tape across multiple physical disks; I came to that solution many years ago when vtape could only use one disk/directory.) Best regards, Olivier
