Hi,

I've now gotten as far as getting Amanda to think the tape drive has 2
slots (I believe)...well at least I can do an amcheck  successfully...

One question:
When amdump runs and fills up the first tape, what should I expect to
see?  
Does Amanda simply eject the first tape and just waits until the second
tape is inserted?  
Does it give any sort of indication that it's time to insert the second
tape?

Just a little confused over that issue.

Thanks very much.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martineau AT zmanda DOT com] 
Sent: 30 May 2008 12:56
To: Johan Booysen
Cc: Amanda user's group
Subject: Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

Johan Booysen wrote:
> Well, there wasn't any email report because it was waiting for the job
> to finish...
>
> I eventually manually killed the job, but the email report only says:
>
> *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
>
> These dumps were to tape daily-3.
> The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to use are: a new tape, a new tape.
> The next 2 new tapes already labelled are: daily-4, daily-5
It tell me the tapes should have been accepted.

I'm not surprise there is nothing in the log, the taper log the error 
when it find a tape, but you killed it before.

You can change the "lastslot=99" to "lastslot=3" in the chg-manual 
scripts. That way, the taper will exit after you feed 3 tapes and it 
will log error messages.

Jean-Louis