Does anybody purge old index files.....

2002-03-27 Thread Don Potter
Reading John's excellent chapter got me to thinking...I should purge old index files as well after I have completed my tape rotation. Since once that tape is overwritten that index in null and void. Can anybody contradict that thinking. Don

Re: Does anybody purge old index files.....

2002-03-27 Thread John R. Jackson
...I should purge old index files as well after I have completed my tape rotation. ... Amanda does this for you via a program called amtrmidx that is called at the end of every amdump. It figures out how long the tape cycle is, goes back to the level 0 preceeding that date, then throws away