Hello again,

thanks for the informatio,n i have allready marked all the tapes to be
no-reuse with the amadmin command.

Now i have a different doubt .-), how can i tell amanda to compress the
files with bzip2 ?? I saw how once on a web but cant find it now, any
ideas ?


Cheers



El mié, 02-06-2004 a las 14:31, Jon LaBadie escribió:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Javier Sanchez wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > i have just succesfully configured an amanda server to store the backups
> > on a local har disk, backup and restore are working but now im facing a
> > new doutb.
> > 
> > I have defined 7 tapes on a external usb hard-disk, when the disk is
> > removed how should i instruct amanda not to remove the database ?
> > 
> > I mean, before removing the disk should i modify the tapes status in any
> > way ? how?
> 
> amandad with the no-reuse argument is, I believe, the proper choice
> to tell amanda to no longer use a tape but retain the database.
> 
> > 
> > And on the new disk i must create another 7 tapes, and label them using
> > correlative numbers ??
> 
> Yes you must create and label new tapes if you want amanda to
> retain old log/index info.  Otherwise amanda thinks it is reusing
> an old tape and is free to overwrite the logs and indicies.
> 
> Any correlation in the names and numbers is yours alone.
> Amanda doesn't care.  It just takes, and later expects,
> them in the order given.  (Assuming they match the label string)