On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 18:28:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 00:31, brnn8r <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If Weekly04 was last written more than tapecycle runs ago, I think
> Amanda will happily accept it.
To expand slightly on that idea, you might also try using the "amadmin
no-reuse" command to mark Weekly03 as 'unavailable', and then when it
comes back around in the rotation use "amadmin reuse" so that Amanda
will use it again.
Nathan
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