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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Re: Tape exclusion
From:       Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau () zmanda ! com>
Date:       2014-02-04 20:54:11
Message-ID: 52F15373.5000901 () zmanda ! com
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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 <jon@jgcomp.com>
>>>>   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

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