On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:16 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Wednesday 13 February 2002 12:21 pm, chandrasekar wrote: >>Hi everyone >> I have a HP-DAT 24*6 tape drive attached to my amanda >> Back-up server. I have few questions. >>i) I had earlier labelled all the six tapes. Then I replaced >> one of the tapes(slot 6) with the cleaning tape. I tried >> labelling the cleaning tape with the same label that I gave >> for the normal tape. But it gave me this error "amlabel: could >> not load slot "6": Cleaning Cartridge Installed and Ejected" >> ii) How do I in general relabel the tapes?When I tried amlabel >> it says tape already labelled . > >You don't label the read-only cleaning tape, but you do have to > tell it via amanda.conf or chg-scsi.conf, what slot the tape is > in. Be aware that amanda uses base 0, so your drives slot 1 is > amanda slot 0 etc. > >>iii) How do I eject my magazine? I used the eject button in the >> tape drive to eject the magazine to place the cleaning tape >> into the magazine, but it loads the first tape and not the >> one(say 4) which was there before I ejected(which seems quite >> obvious). But how do I bring back to the original >> configuration(ie 4) > >First do an amtape /config/ rest, followed by an amcheck
darn these ancient fingers 'rest' should be 'reset' sorry. > /config/ which should leave the drive with the next required > tape loaded if it is in the magazine. Otherwise reload the > magazine with the next set of tapes and repeat. Amanda needs a > base camp to start from by doing the reset after you've had the > magazine out. On some drives (Seagate robots) you can > push-button up the slot to load if the same tape is still in > the same slot as before the magazine was ejected. > >>iv) How do I skip the tapelist order? Suppose I want to backup >> for today at tape 5 while the default is 3. what should I do >> in this case? I would be grateful if I receive answer to most >> of the questions if not all. thanks in advance > >You'll be far better off not to try and second guess what amanda > wants to do. By properly configureing the amanda.conf file, > you can tell amanda the basics of what you want to do, and then > let amanda figure it out from there. You can even do an amdump > out of sequence, and amanda will simply use up the next set of > guesses it would have used at 2am or whenever you have cron > running it, tomorrow morning, etc etc. > >Once you get amanda figured out, and this does take a while, > then you might feel good about bossing her around, but for now, > just buy her lunch. :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.5+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
