On Friday, 31.10.2003 at 17:07 -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > > Is there anyway I can change tape label names after I'm well into > > amanda dumpcycle? I currently have TLS-Set-1-01.. Set-1-02.. > > Set-2-01 and so on. I want to get rid of this set concept from the > > label. > > This is untested; treat it with caution... > > 1. To begin the process, change the "labelstr" regexp in > amanda.conf so that both the old and new label styles are > recognized. > > 2. For the next tapecycle's worth of dumps, you'll have a mix of > old- and new-style labels. Each day that a tape with an > old-style label comes up to be reused: > a. Do "amrmtape <config> <old-label>" > > b. Relabel the tape with a new-style label. Amanda will > consider it to be a "new tape", but that's ok. > > 3. After all of the old-style tapes have been relabelled, change > "labelstr" again, to only accept the new style of labels > > > WARNINGS: > - DO NOT do (2) all at once for all of the tapes; you'll > clobber your backups. Make sure you do those steps, for each > tape, just before Amanda would have overwritten that tape > anyway. > > - If you're still on your first tapecycle, i.e. you're still > adding new tapes one at a time, you'll have to finish adding > in your new tapes before you can even begin step (2). > > - During this process, you're circumventing all (or most) of > Amanda's protections against clobbering the wrong tape. So > be careful!
I'm interested in doing this too, for various reasons. Anyone actually tried something like this? Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370
