Hi, We've gotten to the point where Amanda now needs multiple tapes. Our other systems crossed that point years ago. I've split the big filesystem into two DLEs that I'll dump with tar. I've fixed the amanda.conf file to account for all the new tapes and set tpchanger to chg-manual. We are running 2.4.4p2.
I'm asking this question because I hate surprises. The existing tapes are Daily001 ... Daily013. I've got 13 blank tapes to add to the pool. I assume I need to label these myself. I'd like each dump to use consecutive tapes (Daily001 & Daily002). I doubt this will happen. What should I expect to see? In general how will I know which is the next tape it wants? Do I get this from the report of the previous dump or does the changer tell me which tape to insert? Are there any surprises in store for me? I'm hoping this is a quick and easy change but I such a beast is rare. Thanks. -- Joel Coltoff It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity. -- Albert E. Einstein