I was forced to start off with a small number of tapes and now I got the
rest of them in. In preparation for adding them into the rotation. I
amlabled all the tapes and put some of them in the changer. I didn't
modify the amanda.conf yet because I wanted it to use the next tape
numerically, like if I didn't have any new tapes. I didn't know at the
time that amlabel was updating the tapelist. I was planning on editing
the amanda.conf on the day I wanted to use the first new tape. But,
today when I came in to work amanda had used the first new tape in the
changer.
Now I want to fix this so the tapes will once again be in numerical
error. It would be confusing to remember that 11 comes after 8, etc.
Can I just edit the tapelist file to put them back in order?
I had 10 tapes before, I added 8 more yesterday. I left tapes 8-14 in
the jukebox (monday-sunday's run). Last night's dumps were supposed to
go to tape 9. But they went on tape 11, the first unused tape in the
tapelist.
Here is today's tapelist.
20010320 DailySet111 reuse
20010319 DailySet108 reuse
20010318 DailySet107 reuse
20010317 DailySet106 reuse
20010316 DailySet105 reuse
20010315 DailySet104 reuse
20010314 DailySet103 reuse
20010313 DailySet102 reuse
20010312 DailySet101 reuse
20010311 DailySet110 reuse
20010310 DailySet109 reuse
0 DailySet118 reuse
0 DailySet117 reuse
0 DailySet116 reuse
0 DailySet115 reuse
0 DailySet114 reuse
0 DailySet113 reuse
0 DailySet112 reuse
If I want amanda to ask for the tapes in numerical order would I just
move 11-18 in between 10 and 1? What will it do when I want it to use
tape 11 on friday when last nights backups went onto it? Should I just
move 12-18 between 10 and 1 and then move 11 in a week when all the
dumps on it are outdated? Are there any other files that need to be
updated?
Thanks,
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Jeff Bearer, RHCE
Webmaster
PittsburghLIVE.com
