On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 9:06am, Guy Dallaire wrote > 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 ?
See 'man amrecover': setdate is the command you're looking for. > 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 ? amrmtape > Is there a way to determine which tape is "out of date" and can be > safely "removed" from the rotation ? You can do this on a per-DLE basis via amadmin. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University