On Monday, 01.12.2003 at 20:11 +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > We have a four-week, five days per week cycle: > > Good :) > > > These twenty tapes are named OurName-A-Mon, OurName-A-Tue, ..., > > OurName-A-Fri, OurName-B-Mon, ..., OurName-D-Fri (in other words, > > the letters A, B, C, D refer to weeks in the four-week cycle): > > Bad idea. > > Why not simpl;y name the tapes YourName001 -> YourName020
Yes, I know you're right. To be honest, that is something I'm considering changing. I have a method sorted out to do gradually rename all the tapes. > And then every day you have a cronjob (say at 15:00 and at 16:00) that > does an amcheck -m YourConfig We do that anyway, just in case we've forgotten to load the tape. "Knowing" what the next tape is, is no more/less easy regardless of whether you use YourName001 -> YourName020, or OurName-A-Mon etc. > When you come to Xmas, you will either have to go to work to replace > the tapes, or have to live with a shifted week. Actually, this one's easy, because we have a clean two-week shutdown at Christmas. :-) Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370
