On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:48:09AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:12:07PM +0000, Simon Young wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:28:12AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > 
> > > Your experience may differ, if so I'd like to know for future
> > > reference.
> > 
> > Well, I'm quite new to amanda, but I've been running amdump for the
> > last few nights. Last night's backup was to the tape in slot 2. If I
> > run 'amtape <config> current' now, I get the tape in slot 3.
> > Therefore I'm assuming the state file must have been updated after
> > amdump ran.
> 
> Any chance that is a base 0 vs. base 1 difference. Some changer
> scripts number things 0,1,2 even when the changer/library might number
> them 1,2,3.

Good point, but I've accounted for that. The changer only has slots 1, 2
and 3. At the minute, each slot has it's own tape. This will change in
the very near future, but it would be nice to have amanda eject the
tapes it doesn't need for a while.

Simon