Christian, I think the command you are thinking of is "amrmtape"? Running this will cause Amanda to "forget" about the tape, however. I don't believe this is what you want.
If you simply take the tape out of rotation and change tapecycle to be 13, Amanda will happily go on with 13 tapes. You could even edit the tapelist file and change the line for the removed tape to be "no-reuse". This would prevent Amanda from unintentionally using the tape should the tape accidentally get loaded back into the drive at some point. Paul On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 23:12 +0100, mailinglis...@brennt.net wrote: > Hello, > > I have amanda running for several months with the following configuration: > dumpcycle 0 > runspercycle 1 > tapecycle 14 tapes > runtapes 1 > > Cron configuration is: > 0 16 * * 1-5 amanda /usr/sbin/amcheck -m DailySet1 > 0 23 * * 1-5 amanda /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 > > This gives me a full backup each weekday (server doesn't have that much > diskspace and its easier for restore). > Now I want to take a tape aside for yearly archiving. But how do I do it > with my current configuration? > > Is there some kind of rmlabel command? I read on some pages about it, but > found no manpage and my OpenSuSE doesn't know the command. > If I had a rmlabel command, I could easily rmlabel and amlabel a tape and > change tapecycle to 13 tapes. > And create a yearly BackupJob with this tape.. > > Could I also change tapecycle manually to 13 and simply remove the tape > from the tapelist file? > But then the taken out tape will still show up in the index file, right? > Do I need to edit it? > How do I do this without destroying my whole configuration? > > I think the best thing would be, to add another job (YearlySet1 or so), > set the appropriate CronJobs and label a tape especially for this job.. > But this can't be done because I haven't a spare tape :( > (Yeah.. Could buy one.. But it's a private server and if I can save the > money for a LTO4 tape and learn something, why not? :-) > > Any advice is greatly appreciated, > Christian -- Paul Yeatman Technical Support Engineer Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com
