Here is an update on the problem that I sent yesterday. I had entered my
DDS4backup into cron and last night the backup actually worked, sort of.
It looks like it wrote to the tape in slot one, which I labeled
DDS4backup01, but the report says that it was labeled DDS4backup05.
Below you'll find the results of todays amcheck, all tapes appear to be
labeled DDS4backup05, but that is not how I labeled them. I am guessing
that tonights backup will fail because it can't seem to find another
tape.
A second question I have is about the number of slots to put into my
changer.conf. I am using the first 5 slots for backup tapes and slot 6
is always a cleaning tape. If I configure lastslot=5 and cleanslot=6
then "amtape DDS4backup clean" gives the following error:
amtape: device 0 not clean: Slot 6 is out of range (1 - 5)
If I then change lastslot=6 then I get the problem that you'll notice
below. Amanda will cycle through the cleaning tape thinking that it is a
normal tape. I am using tpchanger=chg-zd-mtx in my amanda.conf.

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:04:15 -0700
From: Amanda user <amanda AT fractal.Mines DOT EDU>
To: amanda AT fractal.Mines DOT EDU, mrobbert AT mines DOT edu
Subject: DDS4backup AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE
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Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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Holding disk /holding/amanda: 6128768 KB disk space available, using 6026368 KB
Holding disk /storage/amanda: 40446788 KB disk space available, using 40344388 
KB
amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20030212 label DDS4backup05 (active tape)
amcheck-server: fatal slot 6: Cleaning Cartridge Installed and Ejected
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
       (expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/curinfo/ito/_usr_local: does not exist
NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/index/ito/_usr_local: does not exist
NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/curinfo/ito/_u1: does not exist
NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/DDS4backup/index/ito/_u1: does not exist
Server check took 254.892 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.510 seconds, 0 problems found

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