On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:34:05AM +0200, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I started using virtual tapes some weeks ago. Unfortunately I ran out of
> disk space far more quickly, than I expected, because I did many full
> dumps due to misconfiguration. Now I had to delete some of the backups.
> I did not find any other way, than deleting the files within the virtual
> tapes. (Only those with backups not the files, amanda created when
> labelling the "tapes"). Now, is there a way to re-index the left -over
> files and delete the missing backups from the index?
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I don't know of an amanda tool for doing so.

However, the index files and the dump files
should have a 1:1 correspondence, a separate
index file for each dump you deleted.  So you
could locate the index for each dump you
deleted and delete it also.  Or reversing
the logic, pair up what you retained with its
index and delete the other indexes.

BTW amanda will still think the dumps are there
as that info comes from the log files.  When you
overwrite the vtapes that will change.

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