On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> [amanda@coyote DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot 00
> >> amlabel: could not load slot "00": illegal request
> >
> >Perhaps Amanda doesn't like slot `00'? Have you tried slot `0'?
> >
> >BTW, mine are called $(seq 32), i.e. I started counting at slot `1',
> > not `0'.
>
> Back when I was running real tapes, Geert, the tapes were labeled with
> a string like DailySet1-01 thru DailySet1-28.
>
> The regex string in amanda.conf:
> labelstr "^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$"      # label constraint regex: all
> tapes must match
>
> The leading zero in the 01 is because I have other scripts that search
> the databases that couldn't be made to cope with the 9 to 10
> transition but worked just fine if it was from 09 to 10, or 19 to 20.
> Probably my fault, but they all work that way and have been for
> years.  And I didn't have any trouble applying the labels.

I wasn't talking about the labels, but about the _slot numbers_.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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