On Wednesday 07 May 2008, FM wrote: >Tx for the reply, >What is strange is that some files are several months old. > >Does Amanda also need these old ones ?
If the tape they go with has been re-used due to reaching the end of the 'tapecycle', then they can go. If you have some labeled 'no-reuse' that might correspond to an archived tape, then hang onto them. >Regards, > >Paul Bijnens wrote: >> On 2008-05-07 17:44, FM wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Is it safe to do some clean up in this folder ? >> >> No. It's the list of statefiles, which gnutar uses to decide >> if a file should be in the incremental backup. >> >> Erasing them (or getting them out of sync) will result in incrementals >> be much larger than normal. -- 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) Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self.
