> On Jan 21, 2008 5:39 PM, Jeremy Mordkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using usb disks instead of tapes with Amanda. I have 20 'tapes' on each > > disk and 5 disks. Now I am ready to start reusing the first disk. How do I > > properly erase the disk so that it looks like 20 empty tapes? > > If your 'tapecycle' is set correctly, you don't need to -- Amanda will > recognize that the first tape on that disk is no longer needed, and > overwrite it. > > Since you have 5*20=100 tapes, your tapecycle should be 100.
Ahhh, maybe I've already made a mess then. In reality, I only have 7 to 10 actual backups on each disk. After that, they were full or I had the opportunity to send the backup off site, so I rotated to the next one. But I pre-allocated 20 'tapes' on each disk. Another reason I want to erase them is my backups are growing, so backup #101 is not going to fit in the space used by backup #1. I need to erase #1 through #20 just to be sure I'll have room on the disk for even 1 backup. JLM
