On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:02:48AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:19:12AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) > wrote: > > > > Does anyone know, please? > > > > Will appreciate your thoughts a lot. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Joe Donner wrote: > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > my tapelist has become a bit confused, due to my own fault, by me adding > > > tapes in the "middle" of my numbered sequence. At the moment it looks > > > like this: > > > 20060803 daily-5 reuse > > > 20060802 daily-1 reuse > > > 20060801 daily-3 reuse > > > 20060731 daily-4 reuse > > > 20060731 daily-2 reuse > > > > > > daily-5 was used last night, and amanda now wants daily-2. > > > > > > What is the correct way of editing this so amanda will use the daily-1 > > > next, then daily-2, etc.? > > > > > > Would this be correct (I'm not sure of the implications of the dates in > > > the tapelist, and whether I will need to adjust those dates as well)?: > > > 20060803 daily-5 reuse > > > 20060731 daily-4 reuse > > > 20060801 daily-3 reuse > > > 20060731 daily-2 reuse > > > 20060802 daily-1 reuse > > > > > > (I'm using full dumps at the moment for every amdump run, if that > > > helps...) > > > > > > Your advice will be much appreciated, as always. > > > > > I think tapelist sequence is the last thing considered when > selecting the next tape to be used. Only those used earlier > or equal to tapecycle runs ago are considered. > > So yes, date does matter. > > Be aware that if you overwrite a tape out of sequence, > the dumps of each DLE higher in level and newer lose a > lot of their backup value. >
Meant to add, amcheck -s and amtape taper each show what tape will be selected to use next. Save a copy of your tapelist file, edit and test. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)