On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:19:12PM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is it safe to change the length of a vtape definition on a > live system? One of our system was originally defined with 100GiB > vtapes, and I'd like to bump that size up to 200+GiB. > > I guess if the answer is no I can always add a new tapetype > and manually rotate the old vtapes out, but I'm wondering if I can > just extend the length to make my life easier.
Aside from the possibility of running the physical disk out of space if amanda uses all that extra space per tape, I don't think there is a problem. There certainly were no problems when I went from a 12GB physical tape with changer to a 100GB tape without. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
