Re: Manual Tape changing

2001-07-03 Thread John R. Jackson
>The next tapes in the "tapelist" file clearly indicate the sequence of empty >tapes: >... >Why is it not asking for Montly-05 and Monthly-06 for the next backup? What is "tapecycle" set to in amanda.conf? If it's bigger than 12 (the number of tapelist entries), that would explain why Amanda th

Re: Manual Tape changing

2001-07-03 Thread Luc Lalonde
Hello John, Thanks for your prompt help! Everything seems to work great. One thing remains though. I find it strange that I get this line in the backup report: ### These dumps were to tapes Monthly-03, Monthly-04. The next 2 tapes Amand

Re: Manual Tape changing

2001-06-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>When we change the "request()" in "src/changer-src/chg-manual.sh.in" to >include notification every 60 minutes will AMDUMP automatically detect >the inserted tape and continue the backup? ... That depends on how you changed request(). :-) If you took the code in the comments and put that in t

Manual Tape changing

2001-06-28 Thread Luc Lalonde
Hello Folks, When we change the "request()" in "src/changer-src/chg-manual.sh.in" to include notification every 60 minutes will AMDUMP automatically detect the inserted tape and continue the backup? I assume that it will do so on the next hourly check from what I can understand in the src. Also

Re: manual tape changing

2001-01-24 Thread John R. Jackson
>I don't have a tape changer defined (I found that when I used chg-manual, I >had to be present to run amcheck!). ... If you look at the chg-manual script, it has comments that describe how you can make it work unattended. >What will happen if I overflow a tape >without a changer defined? Will

manual tape changing

2001-01-24 Thread Ben Elliston
I don't have a tape changer defined (I found that when I used chg-manual, I had to be present to run amcheck!). What will happen if I overflow a tape without a changer defined? Will the backup fail? Thanks, Ben