That was my fall back option. However, I will lose index information on those dirs won't I? So I can't do an amrecover from the client if I want to restore from one of the dirs I have moved. It just means a bit more work having to pull the files out of the dump and then scp them from server to host.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net]
Sent: 03 November 2004 12:20
To: Griffiths, Alan
Cc: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: Chg-disk question

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 04:43, Griffiths, Alan wrote:
>That's how I thought it worked, but
>
>amtape <config> show

IIRC this reports only that which has been labeled and is in the
tapelist.

>never shows more than tapecycle slots in the changer. So as far I  can
>see there is no way to reference slot tapecycle+1, tapecycle+2  etc.
>For example,
>
>amtape <config> label <tapecycle+1>
>
>Returns
>
>amtape: could not find label <tapecycle+1> in tape rack.
>
>Even though a vtape with that label exists. If I extend tapecycle so 
>that new_tapecycle=old_tapecycle+1 then the previous command will 
>correctly load the specified tape.
>
>Am I missing something?
>
It sounds as if you will have to extend the tapecycle after having
marked a current vtape as no-reuse.  Or, rather than marking it
no-reuse and going to all that folderol, since its just a dir on that
partition, just rename it out of the current slotnn nameing scheme. 
Frankly, amanda doesn't make this part brain dead easy, and probably
for a good reason.

I think, rather than involve amanda in it I'd do it all by hand by
just renameing that slot to foo.save, mkdir a new slotnn, and  copy
the first 00000-labelnn carrying file over from the foo.save dir to
the new slotnn directory, and the TAPE_END_file too but rename the
000nn-TAPEEND to 00001-TAPEEND as you copy it.  I *think* this will
fool amanda into thinking its empty and can be used when its turn
comes up, but please don't shoot the messenger if it doesn't quite
work. :)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at]
>Sent: 02 November 2004 16:01
>To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
>Subject: Re: Chg-disk question
>
>
>Hi, Alan,
>
>on Dienstag, 02. November 2004 at 12:26 you wrote to amanda-users:
>
>GA> Can anyone explain how chg-disk works? I'm a bit confused. As I
>GA> understand it the number of slots in the vchanger is determined
> by GA> the tapecycle option. This means that if I remove a tape from
> the GA> cycle with amadmin no-reuse there will be insufficient tapes
> in the GA> cycle. However, I sometimes need to take certain 'tapes'
> out of the GA> cycle for a bit. Is this possible using chg-disk?
>
>The number of vtapes has to be equal or bigger that the parameter 
>tapecycle. You could create some more vtapes, this does not matter  to
>AMANDA.
>
>So if you want to mark up to 3 vtapes as "no-reuse" at a time and  have
>a tapecycle of 10, go and create at least 13 vtapes. Just make  sure
>that you have at least "tapecycle" vtapes that are marked  reusable all
>the time.
>
>Ok?

--
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