On 02/04/2014 03:45 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
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?
amrmtape
Jean-Louis
