On Monday 09 February 2004 16:09, John Stange wrote:
> (honest question, because I have no idea) If you have to manually change
> tapes anyway, what does the changer script do for you?

Hi John,

the changer tells amdump, that it is searchable. Then it receives from amdump 
the label of the next tape, that amanda expects. It prints a request on TTY 
to mount the tape (aka IOmega disk) with the correct label. When the tape has 
been put into the slot, the filesystem is mounted and the actual label is 
compared with the requested label. If they are different, the tape is ejected 
and the the changer asks again for the tape with the correct label. After 5 
sucessive failures to mount the tape with the requested label, it returns to 
the calling program with an error message.

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