So you are saying that I should do it this way?....

45 13 * * 1    /usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 reset
0 14 * * 1-6    /usr/sbin/amcheck -Mmis AT xapnet DOT com DailySet1
0 1 * * 2-6    /usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 slot next
0 2 * * 0    /usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 clean
0 2 * * 1-6    /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1

So after a the first week of backups I put in the second round of tapes in
and put tape 7 which was not being written to in the first slot then run
amtape reset? This needs to be as automatic as possible because the person
changing the tapes knows nothing about amanda and I am not always around
being that this is a client of mine.

Chris

Chris Bourne
Systems/Network Administrator
Xapnet
Phone (510)655-9771
Fax (510)655-9775
http://www.xapnet.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To: "Chris Bourne" <cbourne AT xapnet DOT com>; <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: crontab


> On Monday 09 September 2002 16:14, Chris Bourne wrote:
> >Hello,
> >     I would first like to say thanks to all who have taken the
> > time out of there day to help me get this thing working. Anyway,
> > I have finished ruuning the many tests associated with amcheck,
> > amtape, amdump, etc. and I am ready to automate this thing with
> > cron. I am rotating 14 tapes on a 8 cartriage magazine but only
> > writing to 12 and cleaning once a week(is this overkill or to
> > little?) This is what I have in my crontab file.......
> >
> >0 14 * * 1-6    /usr/sbin/amcheck -Mmis AT xapnet DOT com DailySet1
> >0 1 * * 1-6    /usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 slot next  <-- amanda
> does this automaticly
> >0 2 * * 0    /usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 clean <-- overkill
> >0 2 * * 1-6    /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1
> >
> >...I want the amcheck to run at 2pm Mon.-Sat. and any errors sent
> > to mis AT xapnet DOT com ...I want amtape to rotate daily. Now should I
> > rotate to the slot number or is the next option ok? ...I want to
> > clean every Sunday. Does the tape cleaner need to be called with
> > amtape or does the clean option search my chg-scsi.conf file and
> > use the correct slot because when I ran this command I recieved
> > no errors?
> >...and last amdump Mon.-Sat.
> >
> Amanda will do its own slot advancing so you don't have to worry
> about that as long as you keep the next *wanted* tape in the
> magazine.  The one way you can mess with her mind is to change the
> tapes but not tell her they are changed by doing an "amtape
> /config/ reset", or manually noting the last slot that was loaded
> when you change, and manually reload that slot after changing the
> tapes, otherwise she gets confused as to what slot is loaded when
> she reads the currently loaded tapes header to see if its the right
> tape for tonight.  She'll read slot 3 thinking its slot 1, then
> check 2 and 3 again, not finding the right tape in slot 1 and go
> into degraded mode to the holding disk.
>
> Most drives have a tally led someplace that blinks or something to
> tell when to run the cleaning tape. See the drives manual.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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>
>