Andreas,

The type device is described in # man st(7D).

Amanda has a value in amanda.conf called labelstr

(One) of mine looks like this
labelstr "^INFO[0-9][0-9]*$"

that is (starts with) INFO and has at least two numerics (then ends)

I believe there are newer faster ways to label tapes, even a label
blank tape option during amdump, but I still tend to label them 
manually, or in the case of a jukebox (I have several, including
2 SL24s) a magazine at a time using a very simple script (and that
only to avoid my own command line editing errors).


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Andreas Kuntzagk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm quite new to amanda (and to backing up to tape as well). I already 
> managed to create a conf for our changer (Sun SL24). But I'm still 
> unsure what is the right device for the tape drive.
> 
>  # ls /dev/rmt/
> 0     0b    0bn   0c    0cb   0cbn  0cn   0h    0hb   0hbn  0hn   0l 
> 0lb   0lbn  0ln   0m    0mb   0mbn  0mn   0n    0u    0ub   0ubn  0un
> 
> So far I'm using /dev/rmt/0ubn AFAIK the u stands for Ultra-density, the 
> n for non-rewinding (Amanda needs that, right?) But I'm unsure about the 
> b. What does it mean? I managed to read and write to this device with 
> tar. Also amtapetype gave me some sensible values for this. (actually I 
> used the rewinding device at that time, but the non-rewinding shouldn't 
> differ)
> 
> I now also managed to label a tape using amlabel. Now my question is: 
> How do I label all tapes in the changer? Do I use some kind of pattern 
> or can I label them as I like?
> Is there a command to label all tapes at once?
> 
> regards, Andreas
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