On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 02/04/2014 02:59 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >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. > > Amanda keep the log files and index for all dumps it can restore. > - label must be in the tapelist > - The log.<datestamp>.? file list the dump > log files and index are removed when the label is removed from the > tapelist or the date for the label changed (tape was reuse). > > The reuse/no-reuse flags change nothing for that.
Thanks for the clarification Jean-Louis. Is there an amadmin command to delete a tape from the tapelist? I don't see it on the manpage? Otherwise, when does amanda note a deletion of a tape and do its logfile/index cleanup? JL -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
