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Re: deleting contents of vtapes after backups
2004-06-09 11:02:43
Paul Bijnens wrote:
I assume you did burn them to DVD first. In that case, yes.
It's best to keep the directory named "slotXXX" on disk. You may create
a small file in that directory e.g. "on-DVD", with datestamp and
coordinates of the DVD etc to remember that you did burn that directory
to DVD.
After you have erased the directory, and create the little reminder
file, amanda will show this slot as containing "not an amanda tape".
If you need to restore something from that backup, you may first locate
the DVD and put the contents back, or you can even symlink the "slotXXX"
directory to the mount point of the DVD.
That's sort of how I thought about it, except I wasn't sure if it was ok
to delete the labels too. For restoring I'm used to using 'dd
if=dumpfile bs=32k skip=1 | [restore|tar]' after I searched for it with
amdadmin conf find host dir. I mostly backup with tar for this reason
too, it's easy to generate winzip compatible archives for the windoze
boxes this way. (so the user can restore his/her data without assistence).
Thanks for the info,
Kind regards,
Axel
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