On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 9:06am, Guy Dallaire wrote

> If I use indexing, is it easy to be able to recover a specific
> "version" of a faile ? Say, file "xyz" has been modified often and
> exists on 5 different tapes, all at different dates, and I need to
> restore files from a particular date (not the latest), is there an
> utility in amanda that can show me all the "versions" of the file so I
> can restore exactly the one I want ?

See 'man amrecover': setdate is the command you're looking for.

> Also, is there a way in amanda to "erase" a tape, and remove it from
> amanda's database inventory and amanda's index ? If, for example, I
> have introduced a lot of new tapes in the rotation, and I need to
> reduce it, can I do it ?

amrmtape

> Is there a way to determine which tape is "out of date" and can be
> safely "removed" from the rotation ?

You can do this on a per-DLE basis via amadmin.

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