On Thursday 09 September 2004 13:52, Andreas wrote: >Hello, > >On Thursday 09 September 2004 18:05, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:18:19PM +0200, Andreas Putzo wrote: >> > So i wonder, if there is a way to ask amanda to start a new >> > dumpcycle? >> >> I think "active tape" here means used more recently than other >> tapes in your tapecycle. In fact, more recently than tapecycle >> minus 1 tapes in case you rotate more tapes than your tapecycle >> setting (as I do). >> For example, if your tapecycle is 14 and amanda is expecting >> the 7th tape, just because you "start a new dumpcycle" does >> not make amanda go back to tape 1. It still wants the next >> tape in the cycle. > >Ah ok. So what i really wanted to do is changing the tape order. > >The problem is, that the tapes (hardware-)labeled with weekdays >and i found no time to instruct my co-workers to re-label the tapes > (i have no physical access to do it myself) since i moved over to > amanda. Sometimes they forget to change the tapes and the next day > amanda complains about the false tape. >I think, i should hurry up that re-labeling thing a bit.. ;-) > >regards, >Andreas
IMO labeling an amanda tape with the weekday its supposed to be used is a humungous waste of time, for precisely the above reason. Just number them using something you can setup a regex pattern for in your amanda.conf. -- 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.
