The only thing that no-reuse changes is tapelist. No logs or indexes are deleted, and you can still restore from the tape. It just won't be written to.
NB: I don't remember if this causes AMANDA to prompt for a new tape if taking the tape out of rotation takes you below tapecycle. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ruth Anne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Skipping a tape > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Bort, Paul wrote: > > > You have a few choices: > > > > 1. Add a new tape to the rotation. It will be used before any other. > > > > 2. You can prevent a tape from being used for backups with > a command like > > this: > > > > amanda@tape$ amadmin YourConfig no-reuse YourGoodTape > > OK, But won't this remove any logs, indexes, etc? I don't really want > to remove this tape for good, just for right now. > > As for the crashes, yeah, we're working on it. Coming in before the > sun comes up to reboot servers is not my idea of fun. > > --Ruth Anne > >
