Hello again, thanks for the informatio,n i have allready marked all the tapes to be no-reuse with the amadmin command.
Now i have a different doubt .-), how can i tell amanda to compress the files with bzip2 ?? I saw how once on a web but cant find it now, any ideas ? Cheers El mié, 02-06-2004 a las 14:31, Jon LaBadie escribió: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Javier Sanchez wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > i have just succesfully configured an amanda server to store the backups > > on a local har disk, backup and restore are working but now im facing a > > new doutb. > > > > I have defined 7 tapes on a external usb hard-disk, when the disk is > > removed how should i instruct amanda not to remove the database ? > > > > I mean, before removing the disk should i modify the tapes status in any > > way ? how? > > amandad with the no-reuse argument is, I believe, the proper choice > to tell amanda to no longer use a tape but retain the database. > > > > > And on the new disk i must create another 7 tapes, and label them using > > correlative numbers ?? > > Yes you must create and label new tapes if you want amanda to > retain old log/index info. Otherwise amanda thinks it is reusing > an old tape and is free to overwrite the logs and indicies. > > Any correlation in the names and numbers is yours alone. > Amanda doesn't care. It just takes, and later expects, > them in the order given. (Assuming they match the label string)