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

Subject:	Re: Best way to bring in new tapes and when to do it?
From:	"Gavin Henry" <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
To:	amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date:	Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:30:47 -0000 (GMT)

Joshua Baker-LePain said:
> 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.

Yeah sure, then I can carry on the numbering etc. Thanks,

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

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