On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:39:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to test Amanda before installing a tape drive, therefore I > am using the tapetype HARD-DISK. > > Since the backup will be about 1TB in size, I created a partition of > this size ( /amandatapes ). > > I don't have the resources to create more than one tape of this size, so > I have to reuse the tape multiple times in one day, during the testing > phase. > > The problem is, I need to run multiple test runs in a single day (to > debug the errors for each disklist item), but amanda won't reuse my > single tape until the next calender day. > > I thought I read about this, but after all the reading, I can't seem to > find it again. > > Do I delete and recreate the tape?
For testing, assuming you don't plan on examining the tape contents, this is the way I'd go. For some of my early testing (years ago) I used a shell script that recreated the entire config for each test including the tapelist file after labeling but prior to usage. BTW how many 1TB test dumps can you do in a day? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
