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Re: Best way to bring in new tapes and when to do it?

2004-11-19 06:21:00
Subject: Re: Best way to bring in new tapes and when to do it?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Gavin Henry <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:17:12 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 10:43am, Gavin Henry wrote

> Is the best way to bring in new tapes to label them with the same labels
> using amlabel -f "Config-name"?

Actually I think the thing to do is to
'amadmin $CONFIG no-reuse $TAPELABEL' the tapes you want to retire, and 
then amlabel the new tapes with new labels.  That way the backups on the 
retired tapes will still be "known" to amanda for recovery, if need be.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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