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Almost each tape library should know
about tape cartridges that it has. In order to let library know about
its tape cartridges you need to perform two steps:
- Teach your library about tape
cartridges
- Build amanda's tape database and
put amanda's labels on all tapes
Teaching tape library.
When you get your tape cartridges
there's no any label on it that could help tape library to identify
each tape cartridge. In order to help your library to identify each
tape you should get special labels and put them on each cartridge.
Each label has unique code that is used by bar code reader installed
into most libraries for fast searching. Once you place labels on
cartridges, place 6 tapes into “mail box” column of your
library, put your library into “offline” mode and using control
panel move these tapes from mail column to operational column. It may
vary for each type of tape library so you'd better refer to
documentation of your system.
Bulding amanda's tape database.
Once we place all tapes into tape
library and library knows about them, it's time to let amanda's to
put its own label on each tape. It should be performed by the
following command:
amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-NR slot SlotID
where NR is number of tape, you can use
any number, and SlotID – number of slot of your tape library. For
example, if you have 60 tape cartridges loaded into your library, you
could use this simple perl script to label all 60 tapes:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
foreach my $i(1..60)
{
system("amlabel -f DailySet1 DailySet1-$i slot $i");
}
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