On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:26:38PM +0100, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> your e-mail woke me up :-)
> 
> I've tested Amanda a little today and it already works quite good.
> 
...
> My changerfile basically contains:
> 
> firstslot=1                 #### First storage slot (element) -- required
> lastslot=5                  #### Last storage slot (element) -- required 
> (ndlr: not full yet. I'm still in testing)
> cleanslot=23                #### Slot with cleaner tape -- default is "-1"
> #                           #### Set negative to indicate no cleaner 
> available
> driveslot=0                 #### Drive slot number.  Defaults to 0
> 
> Basically the tests explained in the chg-zd-mtx script ran successfully 
> except that for some reason Amanda did not seem to have taken the lastslot 
> variable into account; When I typed "./chg-zd-mtx -slot next" at slot 5 it 
> loaded the cleaning cartidge instead of going back to slot 1 (And it tried 
> to rewind it which it seems it doesn't like). I still have to figure that 
> out. Then try "amtape". Then I will be able to start to backup the "real 
> things" (600GB-700GB a day).
> 

Cleaning tapes, I think, are designed to be one pass only.  Each cleaning
pass uses a portion of the tape and when the end is reached the tape is
discarded.

In my limited experience I've found it best to consider cleaning a non-
Amanda operation.  I.e. I tell chg-zd-mtx there is no cleaning tape AND
I leave the cleaning tape out of the changer.  When a cleaning operation
is necessary I use mt, mtx, and the cleaning tape to manually do the job.

jl
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