On 05/09/2012 08:01 AM, Greg Copeland wrote:
I have a need to add a new disk and remove an existing disk. Can this be safely done by simply adding and removing the definitions in the configuration?
If you're simply adding/removing disks to be backed-up, you'll want to edit the file that contains your DLE's. After removing/adding the appropriate entries (don't forget the appropriate dump type) be sure to run an amcheck afterwards to verify your changes.
If all goes well, amanda will create the index files and perform a level 0 dump of the new disks on the next run for that configuration.
If you want to add/remove holding disks you'll need, if the mountpoints will be different, to edit your configuration files to change the information about the holding disks (including reserve amount, mountpoint, etc). I would recommend checking to make sure that there isn't any data in the holding disk first, by doing an amflush.
Good luck! ~~Mike
