What's the best way to set up tape changer manual with two tapes?

Just set runtapes 2, tape changer chg-manual ?
And for label tapes? I must label all tapes before set those options?
I also think i have to update tapecycle...

I'm wait for any suggestion, because i don't know what's is the correct way...

Thanks a lot.

Giovanni


-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org] Per conto di Jon LaBadie
Inviato: giovedì 27 ottobre 2005 17.02
A: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Oggetto: Re: R: Release of amanda-2.5.0b1


On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:37:36AM +0200, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
>
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
>> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] Per conto di Jean-Louis 
>> Martineau
>> Inviato: martedì 25 ottobre 2005 13.08
>> A: amanda-announce AT amanda DOT org; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>> Oggetto: Release of amanda-2.5.0b1
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 
>> 2.5.0b1. It is a redesign of many part of amanda.
>> 
>> The span/split patch from John Stange was ported to 2.5.0 and is 
>> integrated in this release.
> 
> This means that in 2.5.0 i can use two tape for backup without tape 
> changer? So when the end of first tape is reached, amanda eject the 
> tape and wait for the second?
> 


I believe the two capabilities are independent.

You always (well, for a very long time) could use multiple tapes without a 
changer.  There is a "pseudo-changer" script, chg-manual, that notifies the 
operator when it is necessary to swap tapes.

The tape span/split patch removes the restriction that the entire image of each 
single DLE dump must tape to a single tape.  With the patch activated an image 
that partially fits at the end of a tape can be continued on the next tape 
rather than restarting from the beginning of the image.


Your posting raises a question I don't recall addressed.  How does the 
span/split patch handle the situation where runtapes is 1 and/or no changer is 
specified?  Or where runtapes is N and on the Nth tape an image doesn't fit?  I 
presume the last image is restarted the next run of taper or if direct to tape 
that image is lost?

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