Hi Nathan, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Stratton Treadway" <natha...@ontko.com> > To: "amanda-users" <amanda-users@amanda.org> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:11:14 PM > Subject: Re: Taper scan algorithm did not find an acceptable volume.
> A common convention (i.e. Amanda doesn't require this, but it seems to > work well at many sites) is to have your volume labels be all-caps > versions of the config name, or something related to that, followed by a > zero-padded two-or-three digit number. For example, I have a > configuration called TestBackup, and in that configuration I have > labelstr "^TESTBACKUP-[0-9][0-9]$" > , and because I have 21 vtapes my volume labels I used are > TESTBACKUP-01, TESTBACKUP-02, .... TESTBACKUP-09, TESTBACKUP-10, > TESTBACKUP-11, ... TESTBACKUP-21. Interestingly, this is quite close to the convention I adopted. I wanted to use the zero padded sequence number, but I opted for an exact match of the slot number, which offends my compulsions, but honors my fidelity to precedent. (-: > Hmmm, right, this topic came up on this list back in March: check out > the the thread "some suggested config parameters for backups to local > disk" (e.g. > https://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg49720.html > or > https://marc.info/?l=amanda-users&m=152190468109388&w=2 > ). I learned something from this thread. Thanks for the help, Nathan. -- Chris. V:916.974.0424 F:916.974.0428
