On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:26:34PM +0000, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > 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. > I thought that was the situation, thanks Deb.
Do you know if you later remove those "no-reuse" tapes are the logs and indices cleaned up? I expect not. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
