On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Yes, it retains them. Ad nauseum ….. errr, ad infinitum! Or at least, for a long long time on my machines. > Jon > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] > 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) > Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
