On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:28:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:14:02 EST > Jon LaBadie said: > > >Quick answer is sure, just overwrite the 32KB first file on the tape. > > > >Longer answer dependes on what you want to do with the tape and how > >much you expect amanda to remember about the tape, its contents, and > >its new label. > > ... > > Hmm, okay. Ideally I'd like amanda's knowledge of what's on the tape > to change with the tape label. > > This is the problem: I have a configuration called 'archive', the > sole purpose of which is be stored off site indefinitely. There a > no-reuse policy on these tapes. The tape labels are of the form > 'YYYY-Q[1-4]-Tape-X/Y' This way, I need only know from which > quarter I need to restore from should I ever need to pull one of > these tapes from storage. Last week I ran this configuration and > labelled the tape as 1/2, but we only used 1 tape, not 2. > > What want to accomplish is changing this tape to be 1/1 instead of 1/2. > So, I can either edit the tape header and the amanda database, or > dump the tape to disk, then flush it to a new tape, which actually > sounds easier. > > So, how would I extract the contents of a tape so I could flush it to > another tape?
I know of no way to accomplish what you are looking to do. Doesn't mean it can't be done, I just don't know of any and I can see lots of potential problems trying to accomplish it. Perhaps for a future version of amanda someone could write a routine to "import" a tape(s) into the index and tapelist. Anyone anxious to do some coding for the amanda project :) As an alternative, couldn't you change the human aspect of the problem? Amanda is quite happy with things the way they are. It has a label, has written data to a tape of that label, has an index of the contents, doesn't know (or care) that you expected to need two tapes. There might be an extra tape labeled ...2/2, but that can be "rmlabel'ed" and relabeled. Seems the only one with problems is the humans involved. Couldn't they find a way to note that the second tape was not used for this archive? Maybe even an empty tape box or slot with a note in it? Just my one fiftyith of a dollar. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)