> On Nov 21, 2018, at 1:55 PM, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have written some very small DLEs so I can rip through weeks of backups in
> minutes. I've learned some things. AMANDA can't backup a file; only
> directories. Is there any way around that? Suppose I need to backup a large
> file in a directory with many other large files, so backing up the complete
> directory or moving / copying my target would be inconvenient, not to mention
> administratively cumbersome when it comes to restoring.
>
> I'm also still fighting AMANDA about how to manage vtapes, but I'm developing
> more focused questions. For example, my test runs are reporting:
>
> NOTES:
> taper: Slot 13 with label Mail.TCLC.org-13 is not reusable
>
> So, how do I designate a slot as having a volume that is re-usable?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> --
> Chris.
>
> V:916.974.0424
> F:916.974.0428
1) You can always “amrecover” a single file, even if you’ve restored a whole
directory. That’s only a half answer to what you asked.
2) amadmin config reuse TAPENAME
man amadmin to check this option, but I think I’ve written it right
3) You still cannot reuse a tape until your “tapecycle” number of tapes is
re-used.
That’s how you told it how many tapes to use before writing over contents.
4) However, you can remove those contents by “amrmtape” removing the tape,
and then relabelling it.
This nominally blanks it. It also removes the record of what it contained
… because you just told it you never want to use those contents; you threw
them out.
amrmtape config TAPENAME
it erases it from the tapelist, and erases the contents from the
currinfo (and etc) directories.
Then re-label it with the same name & number as before.
Deb Baddorf
Fermilab
