On Friday 14 April 2006 23:24, stan wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 07:08:45PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>> On 2006-04-14 17:15, stan wrote:
>> >I'm having trouble adapting to life with a "tape changer".
>> >I'm used to Amanda with a single tape drive, and it seems to
>> >pretty much be ready for the next tape when I insert it.
>> >
>> >My new setup is RAIT with chg-multi (one side vtape, and the other
>> >a real tape drive). Has anyone worked out a way to make certain
>> >that the correct "slot" is selected? I am wondering if someone
>> >might have written a warper script for amtape? I've tried just
>> >putting "amtape config slot next" in my amdump wrapper script,
>> >but sometimes that's not really what needs to the done. For
>> > example, I put a new tape in yesterday, did a manual amtape next,
>> > and an amlabel. And forgot to do an amtape slot previous, so last
>> > nights dumps went to the holding disk, even though the correct
>> > tape was in the drive :-(
>>
>> The correct tape was in the physical drive, but on in the vtape
>> slot.  So amanda wanted to verify the label, and noticed that
>> the rait broke (the mirror was incorrect).
>>
>> I guess you did some manipulations with half of the mirror,
>> because if you did a amlabel then both tapes should have
>> the same label.  Is that what happened?
>
>No, I pretty much shot myself in the foot. It's the first run through
>a set of 25 vtapes, and physical tapes. I did an amtape to advance to
>the next vatep position, did an amlabel, and _fogot_ to do an amtape
>slot prev, since the nightly amdump script (at present) does an amtape
> slot next.
>
>What I would like to do is replace the amtape slot next in the amdump
>wrapper script to something a bit "smarter" that would hunt for
>the correct slot in the "changer". Where correct is defiend as the
>label that amdump is expecting next (or an unused label), _and_
>where teh vtape lable matches what is in the physical tape drive
>assuming that that label fits the first critereia.
>
>I can probably write such a thing, but I was hoping that someone
>else might have already done sothing here.

You can go ahead and write such a beast, but if the tapes are already 
labeled, amcheck can do that just fine.

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