On Thursday 09 September 2004 03:12, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Gene Heskett, > >on Donnerstag, 09. September 2004 at 04:51 you wrote to > amanda-users: > >GH> Greetings Stefan; > >GH> I think I've made some progress and the remaining problem >GH> is my inability to label the vtapes. I think... > >GH> I've combined the scripts in your howto, so that its all in >GH> one in case one should have to restart, and it comes in handy >GH> right now since there is nothing precious to lose if I run it >GH> several times in a row. > >GH> Here is that script: >GH> -------------mkamandatapes------------ >... >GH> amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-${n} slot slot${n} > >Usage: amlabel [-f] <conf> <label> [slot <slot-number>] > >Should be > >amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-${n} slot ${n} > >AFAI see. > >(So that it expands to: > >amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-01 slot 1 > >Still don't know if these leading "0" doesn't bite you, too.) > >Note my comments and changes in the other thread, too.
I rebuilt it with my backup of the config, and started from scratch on the rest of it. What I was missing in the amanda.conf was the line 'changerdev'. I got that from reading the chg-disk src comments. I don't think thats in your HOWTO, or I'm going blind in my old age. And, I have it all working with this 'mkvtapes' script: ----------mkvtapes, cut here----------- #!/bin/sh rm -fR /amandatapes/Dailys rm -f /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tapelist touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tapelist for n in 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 do mkdir -p /amandatapes/Dailys/slot${n} chmod -v 750 /amandatapes/Dailys/slot${n} rm -f /amandatapes/Dailys/data ln -s /amandatapes/Dailys/slot${n} /amandatapes/Dailys/data amlabel Daily Dailys-${n} slot ${n} done rm /amandatapes/Dailys/data ln -s /amandatapes/Dailys/slot01 /amandatapes/Dailys/data echo echo slot dirs made echo ls -lR ---------EOF----------- And it all runs in about 5 or 6 seconds! Now, needless to say, I'm going to remove the exec bits on that puppy. Oh, and you were half right on the 00 01 thing, amlabel upchucks on the 00, but works just fine on a range of 01-30. Which is puzzling because the rest of amanda seems to run on the base 0 numbering system. Bug? Dunno, & its now moot. Now I have to go fix my wrapper scripts for the name changes & re-enable amanda in her cron.conf. Tonight should be a real doozy as its been since back in June that the last backup was done. Now, my question is: how does that 'data' link get replaced when the 'changer' is advanced? Do I need to add that to my wraper scripts? Thanks Stefan. You really did save a lot of time in re-inventing this. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.