On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Arthur Smith wrote: > Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me with a confusing situation i've > gotten myself into... > > First of all, I have configured and tested Amanda to satisfaction, and > am ready to use it in production. Thus, I found and followed the steps > in this FAQ: > > http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id346890 > > > > Ok, I'm done with testing /Amanda/, now I want to put it in production. > How can I reset its databases so as to start from scratch? > > ... > > > TAPE MANAGEMENT > > The /tapelist/ file contains the list of tapes in active use. This file > is maintained entirely by Amanda and should not be created or edited > during normal operation. > > > So.... Now that i have amanda all set up, and have all my tapes properly > labeled, I have deleted my tapelist file, and don't know where to go > from here! > > Thanks in advance for any help!
You certainly can relabel all the tapes. Use the -f option to force overwriting the existing amanda label on the tape. First you may have to create an empty tapelist file, owned by the amanda user/group with rw for owner. Alternatively you can manually create the entire file with lines of the form: 0 <tape_label> reuse For example here are four lines from an old tapelist file: 0 FTape-12 reuse 0 FTape-11 reuse 20031031 FTape-10 reuse 20031030 FTape-09 reuse The top two tapes have not been used yet, the bottom two were. Your entries should look like the top two but with your tape labels rather than FTape-XX. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
