On Thursday 25 March 2004 10:57, Urs Forster wrote: >Hi > >>From: Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:58:16 -0500 >> >>On Thursday 25 March 2004 08:14, Urs Forster wrote: >>>Hi >>> >>>When using amoverview I get a wide output (more than 3 month). >>>This is not readable and anyway the data is obsolete, I only work >>> on a cycle of 5 days. >>> >>>How can I purge old data from the history? >>> >>>Cheers >>>Urs >> >>Good question perhaps. Here, its quite wide, but the dates >> coincide with the number of tapes in my tapecycle of 28. That >> seems to be a reasonable display. What is your tapecycle set to? > >I think thats the point. Now it's 5, but it used to be that high! >Somwhere amanda remembers the higher number, but where? > If you changed it in one swell foop, that which would have been bypassed is still there, it only deletes that which references the tape(s) just re-written. I don't think there is a problem in that case of you going into the index and currinfo dirs and doing a bit of obviously overdue housekeeping.
But why down to 5? One really should have a tapecycle thats at least 2*runtapes*runspercycle in order to have at least the 2 most recent full backups on hand at any one time. Anything less and you're playing russian roulette with a Morgolin Target Pistol as far as your data's safety is concerned... YMMV of course. :) >>As far as purging old history in the indexes and such, amanda does >>that automaticly, removing that which would refer to what was on a >>tape that has been re-written, therefore rendering that data moot. >> >>-- >>Cheers, Gene >>"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >>-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >>99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly >>Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message >>by Gene Heskett are: >>Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > >Bitte keine Antwort an diese Mailadresse. Wird nicht gelesen. > >Don't reply to this address. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
