On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:40:37 -0800, Chris Miller wrote:
> bash-4.2$ ls -l /net/nas1/d0/Mail.TCLC.org/ 
> : 
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 amandabackup disk 1110 Nov 8 09:12 state 
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 amandabackup disk 0 Nov 5 10:17 vtape.00 
> : 
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 amandabackup disk 0 Nov 5 10:17 vtape.62 
> 
> When I run amlabel: amlabel mail.tclc.org Mail.TCLC.org.00 slot vtape.00 
> 
> Reading label... 
> Slot vtape.00 not found 
> Slot vtape.00 not found 
> 
> I apparently do not understand the whole "vtape" thing at all... At a
> minimum, I don't see where the config declares my "slots" as having
> names "vtape.{00..62}"

A little later I will look for a reference to documentation on this, but
in short: I believe the issue is that you are mixing the *name of the
subdirectory* and the *amanda label of on the vtape*.

The Amanda label is what shows up in your interactition with Amanda, and
is actually a name stored in a little header file on your physical tape
or under the vtape subdirectory, to help Amanda keep track of which
tape/vtape is which.

On the other hand, the subdirectories the chg-disk: changer uses to hold
its vtapes are not really designed for direct human interaction... and
they have a built-in naming pattern you can't change.

So, your first step is going to be to rename your subdirectories to
"slot1", "slot2" ... "slot9", "slot10"...  (Note that you can _not_
zero-pad the first 9 slot numbers -- "ls -v" may come in handy.)

After that, the amlabel command should work (or at least give a new
error message) ... but note that the "slot" argument takes a slot
number, rather than some sort of name.


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