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On May 12, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> This is doing it both the hard way, and the leave nagging garbage laying 
> around way.

Of course.  Why do it the easy way?  :)

> IIRC, and its been yonks since I last played with it, the proper command is 
> amrmtape, see the manpage for exact syntax.  This not only removes the tape 
> from the active list, but also removes all the indice etc references to it, 
> leaving you with a clean system.

Excellent, this appears to have done it.

>> Also, amcheck seems to be complaining about labels and active tapes now. 
>> Is this a problem?
> 
> See above, amrmtape should clean that up too.

Though perhaps not this..  I'll let it run through a cycle tonight before I 
pass final judgement, though.

> Your elapsed times there indicate you may be using vtapes?  When I was using 
> a changer, it was often over a minute per tape inspected.  Slow, cheap, 
> seacrate DDS2 changer.  For me, vtapes on a terrabyte HD have been dozens of 
> times more dependable, and since its random access, about 50 times faster 
> when doing a recovery.  One drive failure in about 5 years now, and smartd 
> warned me about it in plenty of time to take corrective replacement action 
> which included rsync'ing the failing drive to the new one.  Amanda never got 
> a hint there was a problem.

Yes, vtapes.  Best thing since .. well, since tapes?  :)

> -- 
> 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)
> Great American Axiom:
>       Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.

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