That's a REALLY good point. the idea is to keep the data on this tape
forever... or at least
until we're sure we will never need the data again. Would amrestore
still work, though? If that
is true, then I'm less worried about losing the index.

Thanks everybody,

~wab~

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martinea AT IRO.UMontreal DOT CA] 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:36 PM
To: wab
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: swap out a tape within the rotation


On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:56:18PM -0500, wab wrote:
> I have decided to archive the current "tapeXX" in my rotation. I want
to
> use a new tape for
> tapeXX, but executing "./amlabel DailySet1 tapeXX" returns, "label
> tapeXX is already on a tape."
> 
> What am I missing? (faq-o-matic is down :( )

It's a bad idea to use the same label for two different tape, why you
don't use a new label?

Amanda will lose all informations about the first tape:
  - index
  - 'amadmin <conf> find' will not list the dump on it.
  - You will not be able to use amrecover to restore from it.

Jean-Louis 
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