How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Hello, I'm using amanda and all is OK. But, now I want to implement level null dumps to be made say every first monday of the month (piece of cake in crontab). >From the Status Update for July 2007 I learned to simply say amanda config force to get a level null dump for all hosts and dis

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: I would like a way to tell amrecover that those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate. After your amdump you still can run amstatus. There you see the tapes amanda used. This you can use for and automatic setting to no-reuse. Save

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
> Gerrit A. Smit wrote: > > I would like a way to tell amrecover that > > those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate. This question remains unsolved, I think. By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape for dumping, but IMHO this doen'

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape for dumping, but IMHO this doen'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

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
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,

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Gerrit A. Smit -TI- wrote: > > Gerrit A. Smit wrote: > > > I would like a way to tell amrecover that > > > those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate. > > This question remains unsolved, I think. > > By telling Amanda not to re

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: 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? Not a full separate configuration. In ~/KDD/amanda.conf (KDD is one of my two sets) I have

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: > Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: >>> 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? > > Not a full separate configuration. In ~/KDD/amanda.co