On Thursday 25 March 2004 10:57, Urs Forster wrote:
>Hi
>
>>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
>>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:58:16 -0500
>>
>>On Thursday 25 March 2004 08:14, Urs Forster wrote:
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>When using amoverview I get a wide output (more than 3 month).
>>>This is not readable and anyway the data is obsolete, I only work
>>> on a cycle of 5 days.
>>>
>>>How can I purge old data from the history?
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>Urs
>>
>>Good question perhaps.  Here, its quite wide, but the dates
>> coincide with the number of tapes in my tapecycle of 28.  That
>> seems to be a reasonable display.  What is your tapecycle set to?
>
>I think thats the point. Now it's 5, but it used to be that high!
>Somwhere amanda remembers the higher number, but where?
>
If you changed it in one swell foop, that which would have been 
bypassed is still there, it only deletes that which references the 
tape(s) just re-written.  I don't think there is a problem in that 
case of you going into the index and currinfo dirs and doing a bit of 
obviously overdue housekeeping.

But why down to 5?  One really should have a tapecycle thats at least 
2*runtapes*runspercycle in order to have at least the 2 most recent 
full backups on hand at any one time.  Anything less and you're 
playing russian roulette with a Morgolin Target Pistol as far as your 
data's safety is concerned...  YMMV of course. :)

>>As far as purging old history in the indexes and such, amanda does
>>that automaticly, removing that which would refer to what was on a
>>tape that has been re-written, therefore rendering that data moot.
>>
>>--
>>Cheers, Gene
>>"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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