-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold Engine / Technology Programmer [email protected] RedHat Certified - RHCE # 803004140609871 MySQL Pro Certified - ID# 207171862 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 - --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkvrDMcACgkQhR5xme3cl74WegCgl1HCTmTm9owmpbNalPyG/33i dXUAoLdyQhnTka74qVWJFlTs8angdPhA =01ZE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
