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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Re: Reducing the tapecycle
From:       Gene Heskett <gene.heskett () verizon ! net>
Date:       2010-05-12 20:33:03
Message-ID: 201005121633.03794.gene.heskett () verizon ! net
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On Wednesday 12 May 2010, Jason Frisvold wrote:
>On May 12, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> This is doing it both the hard way, and the leave nagging garbage laying
>> around way.
>
>Of course.  Why do it the easy way?  :)

Only until we actually learn the easy way, Jason.  Been there, done that, 
even bought and wore out the cheap T-shirt. ;-)

>> IIRC, and its been yonks since I last played with it, the proper command
>> is amrmtape, see the manpage for exact syntax.  This not only removes the
>> tape from the active list, but also removes all the indice etc references
>> to it, leaving you with a clean system.
>
>Excellent, this appears to have done it.
>
>>> Also, amcheck seems to be complaining about labels and active tapes now.
>>> Is this a problem?
>>
>> See above, amrmtape should clean that up too.
>
>Though perhaps not this..  I'll let it run through a cycle tonight before I
> pass final judgement, though.
>
>> Your elapsed times there indicate you may be using vtapes?  When I was
>> using a changer, it was often over a minute per tape inspected.  Slow,
>> cheap, seacrate DDS2 changer.  For me, vtapes on a terrabyte HD have been
>> dozens of times more dependable, and since its random access, about 50
>> times faster when doing a recovery.  One drive failure in about 5 years
>> now, and smartd warned me about it in plenty of time to take corrective
>> replacement action which included rsync'ing the failing drive to the new
>> one.  Amanda never got a hint there was a problem.
>
>Yes, vtapes.  Best thing since .. well, since tapes?  :)

Gee, around my camp site the comparison tends to run a bit more graphic, 
compared to sliced bread or bottled beer, and of course instant favors from 
the fairer sex usually tops the list. ;)  

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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