I think the only part you're missing is this: AMANDA will not have forgotten
about DAILY00 through DAILY19 until you `amrmtape <config> <tapename>`. Then
you can re-label them and re-use them.
You might want to make your monthly backups a separate backup set, or use
the 'no-reuse' option on those tapes.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help replacing tapes
The answer to this may be simpler than I think. The DDS3 tapes for the
amanda system I inherited have been in use for more than a year, so I
figured it was time to replace them. The question is exactly how do I do
that? I have a tapecycle of 20, a dumpcycle of 2 weeks and a runspercycle
of 10. The tapes are currently labeled DAILY00 through DAILY19. From
reading the amanda man page, it appears that I can label the next 20 tapes
DAILY20 through DAILY39 and then insert DAILY20 before the next backup.
After all 20 new tapes have been used once, the amanda system, or at least
the tapelist, will have forgotten about DAILY00 through DAILY19. Do I
understand this correctly?
I intend to recycle the old tapes for monthly archives. I figure after all
20 of the new tapes have been used once, I can safely relabel the old
tapes. Again, do I understand the system correctly?
Many thanks in advance!
Andrew Robinson
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