Donofrio, Lewis wrote:
> Ok here's one for you, this tape subsystem used to do duty as an sol 8.2 afs 
> backup system.  I only bring this up because the tapes I'll be reusing are 
> already labeled (barcode and eeprom id's) from previous backup system.  What 
> I'm wondering is will I be able to install Amanda-server and it would find 
> and reuse these tape investments?
>   

I'm not quite sure what you mean here.

I'm guessing you want to re-use the tapes, but the data backed up on
them is to be overwritten.

I see no difficulty with that. Amanda will see the tapes as not being
amanda tapes (if indeed they are not), and you can use amlabel to put
amanda label files on them. The library should read the barcodes; and,
if mtx and chg-zd-mtx are configured correctly, then changer-barcodes
should record the mapping of barcodes to amanda tape labels. The AIT
drive itself should manage the contents of the eeprom and its
relationship to the files on the tapes.

Does that mesh with your question and understanding? Were you ever able
to see or set anything on the eeprom label?

If what you mean is that the tapes were used in another amanda
installation, and you want to retain the data backed up on them, then it
becomes more complicated. I'm not sure how best to approach that; and,
if that's not what you want, there's no point getting into it here. If
it is, then you'll have to provide more detail, and someone else is
going to have to jump in and help out.

I put this back on list in case anyone there has anything to contribute.


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Chris Hoogendyk

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-amanda-hackers AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-
>> hackers AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Chris Hoogendyk
>> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:49 PM
>> To: amanda-users
>> Cc: Amanda Hackers
>> Subject: Re: TLS-4440 and 2.5.X issues?
>>
>>
>>
>> Donofrio, Lewis wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm planning on building backup server that will be able to properly
>>>       
>> backup something like 9 servers.  Each server will be ranging from 150gb
>> to 500gb (only one or two will ever be that big) a 2tb holding disk and
>> a 4tb vtape system.  I'd like to do archiving to a [1] TLS-4440; does
>> anyone know if I'll be able to have Amanda read the eeprom tape label of
>> the ati2 tapes and make the loader work without much effort?
>>     
>>> [1] - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automagically
>>> ______________________________________________________________________
>>> Lewis Donofrio AT umich DOT edu
>>> Cell: (734) 323-8776
>>>       
>> I've not had any luck discovering anything about the eeprom tape labels
>> other than that the AIT drive itself uses them to more quickly and
>> efficiently access files.
>>
>> However, my AIT5 library has worked beautifully, and I have had no
>> trouble configuring it and setting it up. The built in barcode reader
>> results in the file "changer-barcodes" being populated by amanda,
>> mapping barcodes to tape labels. If you think of the eeprom label as
>> some kind of automagic wigit, then you can just forget about it and go
>> ahead and set up your library.
>>
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> Chris Hoogendyk
>>
>> -
>>    O__  ---- Systems Administrator
>>   c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
>>  (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
>> ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>
>> <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
>>
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>>
>> Erdös 4
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