On Wednesday 05 January 2005 16:33, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
>First off - apologies, I know I've asked this before, and I'm sure
> it's addressed in the docs somewhere, but I've been searching for
> 30 minutes and I can't find either, so I humbly ask again (because
> I need to fix it before tonight :-)
>
>I've had a tape go bad on me. Its label is CIS-008 in config CIS.
> What are the proper steps to remove this tape from the cycle and
> add a new one? Is this it?
>
># amrmtape CIS CIS-008
># (load fresh tape in the drive)
># amlabel CIS CIS-XXX (where XXX is the next in the series I haven't
>used yet?)
>
>Do I need to then edit the tapelist by hand? Or alternately, do I
> just want to remove the bad tape, put in a fresh one, and label it
> CIS-008 (knowing that if I then need a backup that was on the bad
> CIS-008 Amanda will become confused)?
>
>Also, amrmtape seems for when a tape goes bad (which is my current
>situation) but is there a different procedure for when you just want
> to retire a tape? Something like:
>
># amadmin CIS no-reuse CIS-008
>(Will Amanda then prompt for a new tape to get back to desired
> number of tapes? Or do I just load a fresh tape and...)
># amlabel CIS CIS-XXX
>
>Thanks, and sorry again for re-asking.
>
>-Fran
If the header block containing the label can still be read from the
bad tape, there's an easy way to fix this.
dd if=/dev/tape of=scratch
change tape to the new one
dd if=scratch of=/dev/tape
Make sure you are using the rewinding versions of the tape descriptor
for the last write.
Now, if an amcheck can read that tape, it should be safe to put it
back in the rotation in the original tapes sequence.
You can even edit that scratch file with vim if you have to get a
label from a different tape because that ones really gone, but you
must not change the length of it. I've done it several times in
trying to keep a dds2 system running here, but like anyone being
beaten about the brow with a hammer, it feels so good when you stop.
--
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