On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Arthur Smith wrote:
> Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me with a confusing situation i've 
> gotten myself into...
> 
> First of all, I have configured and tested Amanda to satisfaction, and 
> am ready to use it in production. Thus, I found and followed the steps 
> in this FAQ:
> 
> http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id346890
> 
>       
> 
> Ok, I'm done with testing /Amanda/, now I want to put it in production. 
> How can I reset its databases so as to start from scratch?
> 
>       
...
> 
> 
>    TAPE MANAGEMENT
> 
> The /tapelist/ file contains the list of tapes in active use. This file 
> is maintained entirely by Amanda and should not be created or edited 
> during normal operation.
> 
> 
> So.... Now that i have amanda all set up, and have all my tapes properly 
> labeled, I have deleted my tapelist file, and don't know where to go 
> from here!
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!


You certainly can relabel all the tapes.  Use the -f option to
force overwriting the existing amanda label on the tape.
First you may have to create an empty tapelist file,
owned by the amanda user/group with rw for owner.

Alternatively you can manually create the entire file with
lines of the form:

  0 <tape_label> reuse

For example here are four lines from an old tapelist file:


0 FTape-12 reuse
0 FTape-11 reuse
20031031 FTape-10 reuse
20031030 FTape-09 reuse

The top two tapes have not been used yet, the bottom two were.
Your entries should look like the top two but with your tape
labels rather than FTape-XX.

jl
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