Tape labelling and strategy

2002-11-29 Thread marc . bigler
Hello, I would like to rotate between multiple sets of 8 tapes because my changer supports maximum 8 tapes. So I have defined the following in my amanda.conf: dumpcycle 5 days runspercycle 5 tapecycle 8 runtapes 2 When one set of 8 tapes is finished I will take it offsite and then start up with

Re: Tape labelling and strategy

2002-11-29 Thread Niall O Broin
On Friday 29 November 2002 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to rotate between multiple sets of 8 tapes because my changer supports maximum 8 tapes. So I have defined the following in my amanda.conf: dumpcycle 5 days runspercycle 5 tapecycle 8 runtapes 2 When one set of 8

Re: Tape labelling and strategy

2002-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 29 November 2002 04:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to rotate between multiple sets of 8 tapes because my changer supports maximum 8 tapes. So I have defined the following in my amanda.conf: dumpcycle 5 days runspercycle 5 tapecycle 8 runtapes 2 When one set of 8

Re: Tape labelling and strategy

2002-11-29 Thread marc . bigler
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Re: Tape labelling and strategy

2002-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 29 November 2002 07:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, thanks for your detailed opinion. You are right I could use 40 tapes in the config but then I would like to have at least a dump level 0 once per week, so how would I acheive that, I mean which config options in my amanda.conf to

Re: Tape labelling and strategy

2002-11-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:55:47AM +, Niall O Broin wrote: On Friday 29 November 2002 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 5 tapecycle 40 (or however many tapes you have) runtapes 2 and then you simply label your tapes (physically and with amlabel) mysite01

Re: Tape Labelling

2002-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:43:17PM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:14:10AM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried [ lots of data snipped ] End of included message With Linux, I'm out of my realm. Quite

Fw: Tape Labelling

2002-06-03 Thread Brad Waugh
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:43:17PM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:14:10AM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried [ lots of data snipped ] End of included message With Linux, I'm out of my realm.

Tape Labelling

2002-06-02 Thread Brad Waugh
Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried /dev/ht0 /dev/nht0. Both give; $ /usr/sbin/amlabel iogta Tape1 rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label Tape1, checking label amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/nht0 is non-rewinding?

Re: Tape Labelling

2002-06-02 Thread Doug Silver
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Brad Waugh wrote: Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried /dev/ht0 /dev/nht0. Both give; $ /usr/sbin/amlabel iogta Tape1 rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label Tape1, checking label amlabel: no label

Re: Tape Labelling

2002-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:14:10AM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried /dev/ht0 /dev/nht0. Both give; $ /usr/sbin/amlabel iogta Tape1 rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label Tape1, checking label

Re: Tape Labelling

2002-06-02 Thread Brad Waugh
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:14:10AM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried /dev/ht0 /dev/nht0. Both give; $ /usr/sbin/amlabel iogta Tape1 rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label Tape1, checking

Reg:Problems with tape labelling due to change of label string

2002-02-17 Thread chandrasekar
Hi everyone Recently I changed the lablestring in the amanda configuration file. I changed to format completely different from the old one. How do I relable the tapes which were labeled with the earlier configuration. When I try to lable the tapes with the new configuration it says the tape is