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Re: FOLLOW-UP: amverify runs on same tape twice

2003-07-24 08:32:45
Subject: Re: FOLLOW-UP: amverify runs on same tape twice
From: Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT IRO.UMontreal DOT CA>
To: Kurt Yoder <kylist AT shcorp DOT com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:31:26 -0400
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:24:55AM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> 
> Kurt Yoder said:
> > Hello folks
> >
> > I've only got one tape drive with no robot, so if I have more than
> > one tape, I change it manually. Thus, I've set up a "manual changer"
> > configuration; part of that is setting "runtapes 2". So far, so
> > good.
> >
> > Now if I run amverify, it verifies once (ok), then rewinds and
> > *re-verifies the same tape*. According to amverify man page, this is
> > because I've set runtapes to 2. I would like to set runtapes to 2 so
> > I can manually change tapes, but not have amverify check the same
> > tape twice. Is this possible?
> 
> For anyone who was interested, I ended up creating a new set
> exclusively for verifies. This set has runtapes set to 1. Problem
> solved...

Since amanda-2.4.3, you can pass the runtapes parameter on the command
line.

amverify config [ slot [ runtapes ] ]

Jean-Louis
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