Re: Incrementals becoming fulls

2020-09-20 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 20:14:34 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote: > I've read the website on the amanda site about changing disk IDs, but I did > a fairly thorough checking of that, and I don't think that's it. First, > there is literally NO device on the mount point: > > root@AmandaBackup:/usr/local #

Re: How to "unlable" a tape

2020-09-20 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:53:44 +0700, Olivier wrote: > I know there is amadmin no-reuse, but suppose the tape had been > completely destroyed and is not readable anymore, there should be a way > to tell Amanda it should completely forget about that tape, remove any > index it can have aboutt he

Re: How to "unlable" a tape

2020-09-20 Thread J Martin Rushton
Probably not the official way, but you can delete it from /etc/amanda//tapelist I realise that won't remove the index information, but it will stop Amanda from wanting to consider the tape. HTH, Martin On 18/09/2020 04:53, Olivier wrote: Hi, I have been trying to find the command opposite

Backups to google cloud or Azure?

2020-09-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
A customer moves some of his services over to the cloud-services of Google and Microsoft. I only run the servers for a rather small department there, so I am not able to participate in that decision ... Now my contact asks me if we can let Amanda use that cloud storage for backups. In the

Re: How to "unlable" a tape

2020-09-20 Thread Kamil Jońca
Olivier writes: > Hi, > > I have been trying to find the command opposite to amlabel: completely > remove a tape from Amanda. > > I know there is amadmin no-reuse, but suppose the tape had been > completely destroyed and is not readable anymore, there should be a way > to tell Amanda it should

Incrementals becoming fulls

2020-09-20 Thread Jim Kusznir
Hi all: I've got an amanda install where I have a dedicated amanda server w/ holding disk and tape drive, and a FreeNAS storage appliance with capacity of 145TB (about 50TB on shares that get amanda backups applied). To carry out the backup on the FreeNAS device, I have a "FreeNAS Jail" running

How to "unlable" a tape

2020-09-20 Thread Olivier
Hi, I have been trying to find the command opposite to amlabel: completely remove a tape from Amanda. I know there is amadmin no-reuse, but suppose the tape had been completely destroyed and is not readable anymore, there should be a way to tell Amanda it should completely forget about that