Re: Do not start Job if label not correct?

Tony van der Hoff wrote:

On 2 Apr at 9:47 Theodotos Andreou <theo AT francoudi DOT com> wrote in message
<47F3482A.20907 AT francoudi DOT com>

Is there a way to tell a Backup job not to start if there is no correct
label found on the changer? I do not want to use amflush later because
/amandadumps is too small to host all level 0 images during a monthly
archival backup.


I do this:

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#!/bin/bash
#Check tape, and only run backup if successful

DUMP=HomeDumps

/usr/sbin/amcheck -w $DUMP
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
        #retension tape
        mt retension

        #run backup for group
        /usr/sbin/amdump $DUMP

        #verify the tape
        echo Verifying ${DUMP}
        /usr/sbin/amverify $DUMP
else
        echo Failed $DUMP
fi
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Customise to suit...

This will force a non amanda tape or a tape from another amanda job tobe used by MonthlyJob. What I want is not to start MonthlyJob if thereare no labels for it in the changer. I was hoping that there is nativesupport for this in the configuration but I guess I will have to scriptthis behavior myself.


Thanks anyway :)

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Best Regards
Theodotos Andreou
System Administrator

PrimeTel PLC, Cypruswww.prime-tel.com