I don't want to disagree with Steve's assessment. Mostly I think he's right-on with his comments. However ...
I have on perhaps 5 occassions used 'amrmtape' followed by 'amlabel' to force-clear a tape so that it could re-cycle "early". Mostly this has occurred in the (thankfully rare) case of backup failures on the weekly cycle, combined with my unwillingness to let a dud tape sit useless until it comes around again in the regular cycle. I should note that we (deliberately) have a bit of slack in the weekly pool, and size things so that we've always got at least 2 x tapecycle tapes in 'reuse' status. There have been occassions where I've move the re-labelled 'new' tapes from the top to the bottom of the tapelist file in order to assure that they're used next. If you use this tactic AND you want to preserve the numeric ordering of tapes, then you'll need to catch Weekly03 - Weekly05 on the next cycle and selectively apply amrmtape / amlabel during that pass so that the tapes get re-ordered properly. Bryan On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:26:14PM +1300, Steve Wray wrote: > brnn8r wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >This is my first post on this forum and I'm a bit of a Amanda newb. > > > > >At my company we have a Weekly backup regime and after each weekly > >backup the tape is sent offsite for storage and the next Weekly tape is > > brought in. > > > >I've just come back from holiday and Amanda is expecting our next Weekly > >backup tape to be called Weekly03. Unfortunately while I was away this > >tape was given to the backup company and we now have Weekly04. > > > >My question is: Can I change what Amanda expects to be the next Weekly > >tape? i.e. can I set it to Weekly04 instead of Weekly03? Otherwise I'll > >have to request the previous weekly tape is returned and this will of > >course have some cost. > > > I'd get the correct tape from offsite storage. > > I have seen amanda start to request tapes in strange, counter-intuitive > numerical sequences after being 'made to' accept tapes out of sequence. > This sort of thing can mess the offsite storage and retrieval up even more. > > Imagine what'll happen when the backup company deliver Weekly05 and amanda > is asking for Weekly03. I've had some very confusing conversations with > offsite storage people over things like this. > > Best to keep it as simple as possible. > > >Thanks > >Steve > >
