On Monday 26 September 2005 22:04, Scott R. Burns wrote:
>Using amadmin I can easily find out which tapes are required for
> tonights backup. I have runtapes set to 2, so the next two oldest tapes
> are listed. This works fine if I check things each day and load up the
> changer (HP DAT24x6) with the 2 tapes required. I have the changer
> setup with slots 0-4 available for backup tapes (5 tapes) and slot 5
> holds the cleaning tape.
>
>Since our backup uses at most 2 tapes, and usually only 1, I can "tail
> -5 tapelist" to find out the labels of the 5 oldest tapes, and load up
> the changer fully. Would this be a handy feature to have in "amadmin"
> maybe something like: "amadmin CONFIG chgtapes" or "amadmin CONFIG
> changer tapes", to allow for other changer commands from amadmin ? This
> would easily let my backup admin find out what tapes she can load up
> the changer with, and then not have to worry about it for a day or two.
>
>For now I have a "tail -5" script for her but I thought for those with
>changers it would be a nice extension to amadmin.
>
>Any thoughts ?
>
>Scott...

Even though I'm now using vtapes so its moot, I'd vote yes on this
one.  Good idea Scott.

>Scott R. Burns
>NETCON Technologies Incorporated
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>London, Ontario, Canada
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