On Wednesday 17 March 2004 03:24, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 16 March 2004 16:46, jlm17 wrote:
>>>I have a question about the name of the log file generated by
>>>amdump. So the format is log.date.number, where number starts at
>>> 0. If I run two amdumps in one day, would log.date.0 be the log
>>> file for the first amdump to start, or the first amdump to
>>> finish?
>
>...
>
>> Amdump will mail you a report if properly configured, why not use
>> that one?
>
>You took the words right out of my mouth :-)
>
>But if you want to do something else with the log file, like feeding
>it to amtoc, then you do need to know which log file is the good
> one. My cron executes following script each night.  It runs amtoc
> on the right logfile, and ejects from my chg-multi drives with 2
> tapes the tapes that were written. (change the pathnames in the
> script!)
>
>-------------------cut-----------
>#!/bin/sh
>
>CONFIG=$1
>
>/opt/local/sbin/amdump  $CONFIG
>LOGF=`ls -t /var/opt/amanda/$CONFIG/log.2* | head -1`
>/opt/local/sbin/amtoc -a -t $LOGF
>
>grep '^START taper .* label ' $LOGF |
>while read line
>do
>         /opt/local/sbin/amtape $CONFIG eject
>         /opt/local/sbin/amtape $CONFIG slot prev
>done
>-------------------cut-----------

What can I say, thats neat.  Mine of course cannot eject the used 
tapes by any method except handling the magazine.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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