On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:01:34AM +0000, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
> > 
> > No, my message was unclear.  A single drive with chg-manual should
> > be ok.  But, do you have chg-manual working?  Just because you
> > specify it as your tape changer doesn't say that.  Have you tested
> > it as I suggested with amtape?  Can you get it to notify you when
> > a tape needs changing?  Can you use the several amtape command
> > arguments to manipulate the tape and the manual changer?
> 
> Ok, i've acivated the "changer" with:
> tpchanger "chg-manual"
> 
> I could use all the important amtape commands.
> Only confusing is the ever changing value for the slot it would/should  use.
> In the chg-manual-Script the slots are defined from 1 to 99.
> Maybe i should change this to 1 to 1 (Only one streamer, only one slot)?
> At the moment i leave it as it is.
> 

I've not used chg-manual, always had a changer.  But I suspect that "slots"
are only appropriate for hardware that actually has storage for unloaded
tapes.  Chg-manual might still be appropriate IF the loading and unloading
must be done manually rather than under software control.  But that is not
your case, you only have the one slot, so don't lie to amanda and tell it
you have 99 slots (or whatever).

So I'd guess you still need to configure your chg-manual script.  But, as
I noted, I've not used chg-manual.  Maybe someone else will chime in.
Also, you need more than 2 tapes in rotation, time to amlabel a few more.

I'd suggest that after you modify/configure your chg-manual script
you wipeout any of the datafiles chg-manual has already created.
I.e. there is no sense for chg-manual having a datafile indicating
tape 2 is in slot 2 if there is only 1 slot configured.
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