Greets all;

Having just returned from a long work trip, I fired up my cron entries 
for amanda, reset runtapes to 6, and figured amdump would use the 
last 2 tapes in the magazine, then I could run amflush to finish the 
job after reloading the magazine.

Silly me...

It couldn't find the next tape, and hasn't now in 3 runs of amflush.  
And I was sitting here, but did not hear it searching the magazine 
but its possible tvtime may have covered that up.

It appears it writes the current tape in the first slot (I've done an 
"amtape /config/ reset" to reset it to the first slot in each case 
after cycling the written tape out and feeding it the cleaning tape, 
then moved the unused tapes to the top, and added the next tape in 
the sequence to the bottom slot so it could if it would, just run on 
thru the magazine until done) and then either doesn't search, or 
skips the next (2nd) slot each time.  After the last failure, I sat 
down in front of the drive and watched it skip slot 2 for the first 
run of amcheck, but a rerun did scan slot 2 and find the right tape.

If it starts from a "reset" condition, it (amflush/amcheck) should 
have checked slot 2 next after slot 1 (0 to amanda of course since 
amanda runs in base zero & thats a PITA), but didn't.  Is this a bug, 
or am I being dense and missing something obvious?

If I can get it all flushed before tonights run of amdump, then 
tonights run should "catch it up" and I can reset runtapes back to 1 
and start getting back into balance.  I have about 2 hours left.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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