Hi

We have just done exactly this. I setup the rait as a chg-multi with 5
slots
I then ran a little script to copy the tape label before running amdump
I also setup two other configs one for just using the tape which is used
by amcheck and on which just uses the vtapes so we can recover files
without having to mount the tapes. 
I later increase the number of vtapes to 10 so we could run amflush
without  overwriting the last nights tape by using amodified version of
the script below

I hope this helps

Please feel free to contact me if you need more details

#!/bin/sh

VTAPE=file:/var/amanda/vtapes/sir-1/vtape$1
DEV=/dev/rmt/0

AMMT=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/ammt
AMDD=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdd
AMDUMP=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdump
AMTAPE=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/amtape

$AMMT -t $VTAPE rewind
$AMMT -t $DEV rewind
$AMDD if=$DEV of=$VTAPE bs=32k count=1 2>&1 > /dev/null

$AMTAPE sir-1 slot $1
$AMDUMP sir-1

$AMMT -t $DEV offline

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of stan
Sent: 29 March 2006 13:58
To: amanda users list
Subject: A question about RAIT with mixed vtapes, and physical tapes

I'm setting up a new system using RAIT with one vtape, and one physical
tape in each RAIT set. I only have room on my disks for 5 vtapes, but I
have 25 tapes. I would like to just have the last 5 backup sets (one
week)
on the vtapes at any one time, but rotate through all 25 physical tapes.


Can I do this?

How can I label just the physical tapes without overwrite the labels on
the
vtapes?


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