Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>Now I have two drives configured as chg-multi, but >sometimes backups only require one tape. amtape doesn't >know how many tapes were used. ... I also use a script around amdump (et al) and just run that from cron. It's available at: ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/run-amanda if any

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:48:40 GMT Denise Ives said: >Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape >drive when a dump to tape is finished? Well, there's not much to it, in amanda's crontab entry, just do something like: 55 23 * * 0 amdump DailyS

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread stanonik
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Denise Ives wrote: > Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape > drive when a dump to tape is finished? When I had only one tape drive, I ran a script which contained amdump $config amtape $config eject (I don't remember who sug

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Niess
Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape > drive when a dump to tape is finished? > > Or should I write a perl or shell script to automate the both the dump and > eject tape process? I do it via crontab: ... nice /path/am

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:48:40 + (GMT) >From: Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape >drive when a dump to tape is finished? >Or should I write a perl or shell script to automate the both the dump and >eject tape process? I

ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread Denise Ives
Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape drive when a dump to tape is finished? Or should I write a perl or shell script to automate the both the dump and eject tape process? -- Denise E. Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer