Patrick M. Hausen schrieb: > Hi! > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote: > >> thanks, but does this also mean, that in future times I have always to >> put the tapes in ...-02-06-03-... order, or does *she* switch over to >> 02-06-03-04-05-01-02-03-04-05-06-01... automatically, so that the newest >> tape is in fact added at the end of the list after one full cycle? > > Amanda may reorder tapes to be used any time, anyway. > Set up a cron job that executes amcheck every morning and > sends you the ouput via email. It contains the information > which tape Amanda expects next.
Ralf, Patrick is correct: Amanda tracks tape usage and tells you which tape to insert. Either by running amcheck or 'amadmin <conf> tape', and the report mail of amdump also contains that info. Just let loose on this ;-) Stefan
