Hi, I received great suggestions from people on this list. Thanks to all. One of those suggestion involved using 3 or 4 "sets" of tapes to be able to keep a copy of the backup "off site"
For example, if I use 5 tapes per week and my dumpcylce is one week, I could keep a set locally to do my backups on, another in a file cabinet, another at a remote site. I will probably have more than 4 "sets" of tapes. My question is: If I use indexing, is it easy to be able to recover a specific "version" of a faile ? Say, file "xyz" has been modified often and exists on 5 different tapes, all at different dates, and I need to restore files from a particular date (not the latest), is there an utility in amanda that can show me all the "versions" of the file so I can restore exactly the one I want ? Also, is there a way in amanda to "erase" a tape, and remove it from amanda's database inventory and amanda's index ? If, for example, I have introduced a lot of new tapes in the rotation, and I need to reduce it, can I do it ? Is there a way to determine which tape is "out of date" and can be safely "removed" from the rotation ? THANKS A LOT, AGAIN !