On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:47:31PM +0000, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> >>>>> "Inaki" == Inaki Sanchez <isanchez AT unav DOT es> writes:
> 
>     Inaki> No problem doing amlabel ISR006 right now, amanda will let
>     Inaki> you do the backup in ISR005 or ISR006, it is up to you.
> 
> But how can I choose which?? Amanda handles the autoloader
> automatically, I have no control on what tape goes next.

Leave tapecycle at its current setting (5?), at least temporarily.

Label tape 6 and then remove it from the library.  Amanda will use
either any new tape it finds or a valid tape such as tape 5.  By
valid I mean previously used, but no more recently than "tapecycle"
number of dumps ago.  After the next dump, put tape 6 back in.

> Yeah, that command works for me. However, I'm not sure what happens
> when I powercycle the system. I'm not 100% sure the tape will always
> write in non-compression mode, once all labels were written with no
> compression.

Some linuxes have a command or file ?stinit? to define the default.
And on some you can setup additional tapedevices that are with and
without compression.


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