The amcheck utility will tell you, among other things, the next tape that 
Amanda expects to see.  Proper syntax, as far as my usage of the command 
goes, is:
        amcheck -cs <config_name>
where <config_name> is the name of your Amanda configuration.

The output of one of my amcheck commands looks like:
====================================================
$ amcheck -cs emcpd
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk //amanda/emcpd: 11198792 KB disk space available, that's plenty
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape emcpd-008 label ok
Server check took 8.049 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 8 hosts checked in 1.565 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)
=====================================================

If it does not find the correct tape in the tape drive, it will tell 
you which one it is expecting.

Don

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail:  Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com

-----Original Message-----
From: Per von Zweigbergk [mailto:pvz AT linux DOT se]
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:08 PM
To: Rebecca Pakish Crum
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Using Amanda without a tape changer


torsdagen den 22 maj 2003 kl 19.35 skrev Rebecca Pakish Crum:

>>  From what I've understood, Amanda should be run from a cron job, for
>> example at at midnight, once a day. I've also understood that you can
>> configure Amanda to only run on weekdays.
>
> Absolutely...I do my backups this way. If you know anything about cron,
> you know you can pick and choose your days, hours, minutes etc for when
> you want the dump to run.

Yes, absolutely, I was referring not only on configuring cron, but also 
referring to the dumpcycle and runspercycle(?) flag.

Also, I'd like some confirmation on one step... the correct way to know 
what tape the next that amanda wants is to read the e-mail it sends 
out, right? Or can one just assume it will want them in sequence?

-- 
Per von Zweigbergk <pvz AT e.kth DOT se>


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