Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 18.02.2015 19:43, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 02/18/2015 01:17 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> (a)oops, I didn’t mean to write plural. Just singular. >> amadmin tape >> >> (b) the flag doesn’t work for me.I’m at version 3.3.7. >> RedHat; I compiled from a tar ball.

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.02.2015 um 19:43 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > On 02/18/2015 01:17 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> (a)oops, I didn’t mean to write plural. Just singular. >> amadmin tape >> >> (b) the flag doesn’t work for me.I’m at version 3.3.7. >> RedHat; I compiled from a tar ba

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
[Still at Wadsworth, only the email has changed] -Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Debra S Baddorf Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:46 PM To: s...@amanda.org; AMANDA users Cc: Debra S Baddorf Subject: Re: notify wh

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-18 Thread Debra S Baddorf
t he was > looking for. > > Brian > [Still at Wadsworth, only the email has changed] > > -Original Message- > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On > Behalf Of Debra S Baddorf > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:46 PM > To: s...@ama

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-17 Thread Debra S Baddorf
To take this discussion back to the whole list: Stefan has a small untested script to make use of a feature which I think is not active currently. He may have seen references in the code. amadmintapes —days N which apparently would tell you what tapes will be required for N days to

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 17.02.2015 18:30, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > So maybe nobody does anything clever. I don’t either. > But it occurs to me that I could at least do a cronjob weekly (or whatever > frequency you need), > in case I forget to log in with at least that frequency, to do > > mtx -f /dev/cha

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-17 Thread Debra S Baddorf
So maybe nobody does anything clever. I don’t either. But it occurs to me that I could at least do a cronjob weekly (or whatever frequency you need), in case I forget to log in with at least that frequency, to do mtx -f /dev/changer status Then I would get an email, and

notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
How do you all handle refilling your library's magazines? It would helpful to be notified when the library holds less than N reusable tapes (or $tapes for N runs). Not every library holds all the tapes configured for one config and amanda shouldn't run out of reusable tapes on saturday ... Is th