On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:08:38PM -0800, Matthew Hall wrote:
> 
> Why is this going and deleting all my old index files?

Did you removed the label from the tapelist file?
Or you removed the log files?

> Is
> there a way to change this behaviour? Some of us do take
> tapes out of the changer for offsite storage - now it's
> more 'difficult'[1] to restore since amtrmidx decided I
> didn't really need my old index files. 

You should archive your index and amanda log files.

> What influences this behaviour?

Amanda will not be able to use them.

> Is there a way to change it?

Remove the call to amtrmidx in amcleanup.sh.in and amdump.sh.in

> Is there a way to regenerate the index files from an
> existing tape? 

No,

> Help, pointers, anything you feel like throwing my way
> would be appreciated.
> 
> [1] Now I have to use ufsrestore off the raw tape device,
> was hoping to use the easy interface of amrecover.

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