On Tuesday 02 November 2004 06:26, Griffiths, Alan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone explain how chg-disk works? I'm a bit confused. As I
> understand it the number of slots in the vchanger is determined by
> the tapecycle option. This means that if I remove a tape from the
> cycle with amadmin no-reuse there will be insufficient tapes in the
> cycle. However, I sometimes need to take certain 'tapes' out of the
> cycle for a bit. Is this possible using chg-disk?
>
>Cheers,
>
I don't really know Alan, I've not taken a vtape out of circulation.
I would imagine that creating a new one (if there is space left on the 
device to do that) would put your other vars back into some semblance 
of sanity though. Here, I'ms till playing with the dumpcycle and 
runtapes trying to keep from overflowing a 178GB partition on a 200GB 
drive.  The rest of it is swap and /var.  I've been downloading the 
FC3RC5 iso's (or whatever the latest RC is, I'll probably do an rsync 
on it yet tonight again), so I've been overloading amanda's tolerance 
for new data when I do it in 2.5GB pieces :-)

Actually, those that you would want to keep, probably should be copied 
out of the vtape array, either to a real tape, or to another location 
on a hard drive that can be removed and stored.  For truely archival, 
as in say 5-7 years for tax records or such, I'd copy it to tape, and 
take the tape to offsite storage.  If its that important, treat it 
right.  For me, its more recovery convienience than in any legal 
requirement, I'm just a home hacker and general all around JOAT, now 
at 70, & semi-retired.

>Alan Griffiths
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