Marc Muehlfeld wrote: > Gerrit A. Smit wrote: > > By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that > > tape for dumping, but IMHO this doesn't change anything for other > > operations. amrecover will still use the tape for reading when needed > > according to the set time, and I want to be able to prevent that for tapes > > which are off site. The user should be able to decide whether to use a tape which is off site.
> Why? Because it would not be helpfull for people restoring files if they are told to mount a tape (with a level 0 dump) which is e.g. a one hour drive away. Sure they won't like that. They could be better off with an older level 0 dump which is on site. > If you don't want to have the full dumps seen by amrecovery why don't you > create a separate set for it? Having a separate set means having a separate configuration, right? Or can I have more than one set of tapes in the same configuration? I am looking for means to have 1 set of tapes for all purposes. Which also means that the number of tapes needed for a full dump is part of the total number of tapes in a set, and so it can get bigger or smaller as needed. Users don't have to bother about a different configuration. This might seem strange, but I still want to give it a try. They only remaining point is the use of amrecover with this setup. Gerrit