Re: swap out a tape within the rotation

[Paul Bijnens]

wab wrote:

That's a REALLY good point. the idea is to keep the data on this tape
forever... or at least
until we're sure we will never need the data again. Would amrestore
still work, though? If that
is true, then I'm less worried about losing the index.

I take some tapes out of my 'archive' series now and then and store
them forever. I do this by marking that tape as no-reuse:
amadmin archive THE-TAPE-XXX no-reuse

That way I keep all the info (indexes etc.), and amanda will not ask for that tape again. I label a new tape with a new number (at the end of the series) to fill the gap I created.

Thanks everybody,

~wab~

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:36 PM
To: wab
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: swap out a tape within the rotation


On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:56:18PM -0500, wab wrote:

I have decided to archive the current "tapeXX" in my rotation. I want

to

use a new tape for
tapeXX, but executing "./amlabel DailySet1 tapeXX" returns, "label
tapeXX is already on a tape."

What am I missing? (faq-o-matic is down :( )

It's a bad idea to use the same label for two different tape, why you
don't use a new label?

Amanda will lose all informations about the first tape:
- index
- 'amadmin <conf> find' will not list the dump on it.
- You will not be able to use amrecover to restore from it.

Jean-Louis

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