Kin-Ho Kwan
Christoph Scheeder wrote:
Hi,
amrmtape only removes the entrys for the tape from all databases, but amanda will happily use it if she sees it again as the label on tape is not touched at all.
The question is what should be achieved:
1.) make amanda forget about the backups on that tape? -> ok, amrmtape is your friend, it does what you want.
2.) you want amanda to reject the tape when she sees it again? -> "amadmin <config> <tape-label> noreuse" marks the tape as "this tape is not allowed to be overwrite by amanda"
3.) you want to delete the amanda tapelabel and all other data from the tape, so amnda doesn't touch it anymore? -> use dd to overwrite the first block on the tape with 0 or random data.
Christoph
Dave Ewart schrieb:
On Thursday, 05.02.2004 at 10:05 -0500, Kin-Ho Kwan wrote:
Hi,
Is it sufficient enough to just run "amrmtape -n conf TAPE001" so that Amanda will not use this tape for backup?
I try to run "amrmtape -n conf TAPE001", but Amanda still use that tape to backup stuff. Is there any other command I need to run to remove the Amanda label?
Reading TFM, I see:
-n Generate new tapelist and database files with label removed, but leave them in /tmp and do not update the original copies.
I suggest dropping the '-n' ... :-)
Dave.