(a) oops, I didn’t mean to write plural. Just singular. amadmin <config> tape
(b) the flag doesn’t work for me. I’m at version 3.3.7. RedHat; I compiled from a tar ball. The flag is completely ignored. I wonder what makes the difference?? Deb Baddorf Fermilab On Feb 18, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Cuttler, Brian (HEALTH) <brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov> wrote: > Deb, > > I hadn't been aware of that flag, good catch. > > The switch does function for me. > > You used "tapes", rather than "tape"(?) > > # amadmin curie tape --days 1 > The next Amanda run should go onto tape Curie510 or a new tape > tape Curie511 or a new tape > > # amadmin curie tape --days 2 > The next Amanda run should go onto tape Curie510 or a new tape > tape Curie511 or a new tape > The next Amanda run should go onto tape Curie512 or a new tape > tape Curie513 or a new tape > > so if your version of amanda supports this, searching the list of tapes (and > finding them) in the library for these tapes should give Stefan what he was > looking for. > > Brian > [Still at Wadsworth, only the email has changed] > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On > Behalf Of Debra S Baddorf > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:46 PM > To: s...@amanda.org; AMANDA users > Cc: Debra S Baddorf > Subject: Re: notify when library is running out of tapes > > To take this discussion back to the whole list: > Stefan has a small untested script to make use of a feature which I > think is not active currently. He may have seen references in the code. > amadmin <config> tapes -days N > which apparently would tell you what tapes will be required for N days to > come. > > amadmin <config> tapes > tells about RUNTAPES number of tapes, where RUNTAPES is > the number configured to be used each day. The dash-dash-days flag > would multiply N days times RUNTAPES, I imagine. > > You would still have to grep through your tape library to see if the tapes > were present. > > > If that -days flag worked, it could be very useful. The flags aren't > in my man pages, and they don't work for me (though nothing complains > about the flag). > > > > Currently, one could increase the RUNTAPES parameter arbitrarily, then > amadmin <config> tapes > mtx -f /dev/changer status > and some grepping to see if all those tapes were present. But Stefan > says he needs the > RUNTAPES param and can't change it. > > > Or, Stefan suggests that maybe AMCHECK might be expected to do the work > for us, rather than us having to write a script to check the library. > > Comments, thoughts, from anybody else? Discussion ..... > > Deb Baddorf > Fermilab > > > (please forgive capitalized words - that's so spell checker will stop > changing them into OTHER words) > > > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <s...@amanda.org> wrote: > >> On 17.02.2015 20:51, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> >>>> When I run it on a server with amadmin-3.3.6 .. the help tells me so, yes. >>> >>> Hmmm - I'm at 3.3.7 and I don't see that. >>> Only for OTHER amadmin commands, such as bump. >> >> maybe that got changed, yes! >> Sophisticated users do a code-view .. others ask JLM on the list ;-) >> >> >>>> I don't like fiddling with $runtapes, no, I need that parameter to >>>> be exactly defined at the customer in case. >>>> >>>> And it wouldn't be an elegant solution IMO (I wouldn't understand it >>>> in a year and screw it up by "correcting" the value of $runtapes). >>> >>> Well, if I changed it, I would put a large paragraph of comments >>> about WHY I had changed the value! >> >> I prefer doing things in a way that does not bend things. >> As seen above, upstream code changes ... >> >> >>>>> Maybe this makes it worth putting the amanda-users back into the email >>>>> address >>>>> and sharing the concept with the list? And then re-sharing your script >>>>> (since I've >>>>> obliterated it from this email) >>>> >>>> Feel free to share it there if you want ... I am running out of time >>>> here right now and got to leave now. Maybe we wait with sharing it >>>> .. -> >>> >>> I'll put together both your script, and my questions about -days >>> and about the RUNTAPES param and post them to the list. >>> Just to get some conversation flowing. >>> Catch ya later. >> >> Thanks, looking fwd. >> >> To me that looks like a nice feature request for amcheck! >> >> Stefan >> > >