On 10/22/10 1:36 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote:
if I have a theoretical tapecycle of 20, and the obvious 20 tapes, but a small changer with only
2-5 slots, which I intend to load daily with the required tapes for the night's run, is it safe to
assume that amanda will *ALWAYS* request tapes in the same numerical order, or can it at any point
pick an arbitrary tape from the list?
See http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-taperscan.7.html
I have around 35 tapes and a library that holds 16. I change out a weeks worth of tapes at a time.
It's always worked nicely and sequentially for me, with the one odd caveat that the traditional
taper algorithm will skip over a new tape in preference for an already written tape that is eligible
for reuse. That only happened when I had a tapecycle that was less than the capacity of the library
(otherwise I wouldn't have those tapes cycled back in to the library), and I got around it by
temporarily bumping the size of the tapecycle so that it had to use a new tape.
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