AMTAPE(8) System Administration Commands AMTAPE(8)NAMEamtape - user interface to Amanda tape changer controls
SYNOPSISamtape config command [command_options...] [-o configoption]...
DESCRIPTION
Amtape performs tape changer control operations. It uses the underlying
tape changer script defined by the tpchanger option for a particular
Amanda configuration as specified by the config argument.
Tape changers maintain a notion of the current and next slot for each
configuration. These may or may not correspond to an actual physical
state of the device, but do tend to minimize searching through the tape
storage slots. If the desired tape is in the current slot, it is likely
the next tape needed is in the next slot rather than at some random
position in the storage slots.
See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
COMMANDS
reset
Reset the tape changer to a known state. The current slot is set to
the first slot. Other device-specific side effects may occur. Some
gravity stackers need to be reset to the top position by hand. This
command notifies Amanda the stacker is back in that position.
eject
If a tape is loaded in the drive, it is ejected and returned to the
slot from which it was loaded.
clean
If a cleaning tape is defined for the changer, it is used to clean
the drive.
show
Show the contents of all slots. This can be slow.
label label
Search for and load the Amanda tape with label label.
taper
Perform the taper scan algorithm. Load the next tape in the
configuration´s tape sequence, or a fresh tape with a suitable
label.
device
Display the name of the current tape device on stdout.
current
Display the current slot.
update
Update the changer label database, if it has one, to match the
tapes now available.
slot slot
Eject any tape in the drive and put it away, then load the tape
from slot slot and reset current.
slot current
Eject any tape in the drive and put it away, then load the tape
from the current slot.
slot next
Eject any tape in the drive and put it away, then load the tape
from the next slot and reset current.
slot first
Eject any tape in the drive and put it away, then load the tape
from the first slot and reset current.
slot advance
Synonym for slot next.
-o configoption
See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).
This is useful with non-gravity stackers to unload the last tape used
and set up Amanda for the next run. If you just use eject, the current
tape will be mounted again in the next run, where it will be rejected
as being still in use, ejected and the next tape requested. Using slot
next followed by eject does an unnecessary mount.
Note: most changers optimize the slot commands to not eject the loaded
tape if it is the one being requested.
SEE ALSOamanda(8), : http://wiki.zmanda.com
AUTHORS
James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw@amanda.org>
Amanda 2.6.1p2 11/05/2009 AMTAPE(8)
