On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Gerrit A. Smit -TI- wrote:
> > Gerrit A. Smit wrote:
> > > I would like a way to tell amrecover that
> > > those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate.
> 
> This question remains unsolved, I think.
> 
> By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape
> for dumping, but IMHO this doen't change anything for other operations.
> amrecover will still use the tape for reading when needed according to the set
> time, and I want to be able to prevent that for tapes which are off site.
> 
> Thank you for your script, but it doesn't address the bottom line of my 
> message.
> 

You are asking for how to do a capability not currently in amanda.
Perhaps time to add it to the wishlist.

Off the top of my head, there are 4 states for a tape in amanda:

usable - never been used
usable - recorded 
not usable - recorded (index still valid?)
not in the database

There is no differentiation in the second or third catagory as to location
or "availability for recovery".


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