On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42 > > > > Personally I think periodic archives are a good idea. > > Pulling the January monthly sounds like a reasonable approach. > > Thanks. It is nice to have confirmation that I am on reasonable track. > > > > 2. If we are to use this approach is there a way to designate a tape > > > as not to be reused but leave it in the set or will we have to > > > remove it from the set? > > > > You can mark the tape "no-reuse" in the tapelist, # amadmin has an > > option to do this. Depending on your naming schema this may or may > > not cause confusing later on. > > That is exactly what I am looking for. It is so straight forward I > wonder how I could have possibly missed it in my previous searches. I > guess I am just getting blind in my old age. >
"no-reuse" was my initial reaction also. There is one aspect I'm not sure about though. Does amanda retain the index and log files for dumps on tapes marked "no-reuse"? If it does not, then you would not be able to use amrecover on your archived tapes. Other ways of restoring would still work though. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
