On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:02:48AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:19:12AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know, please?
> >
> > Will appreciate your thoughts a lot.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Joe Donner wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > my tapelist has become a bit confused, due to my own fault, by me adding
> > > tapes in the "middle" of my numbered sequence. At the moment it looks
> > > like this:
> > > 20060803 daily-5 reuse
> > > 20060802 daily-1 reuse
> > > 20060801 daily-3 reuse
> > > 20060731 daily-4 reuse
> > > 20060731 daily-2 reuse
> > >
> > > daily-5 was used last night, and amanda now wants daily-2.
> > >
> > > What is the correct way of editing this so amanda will use the daily-1
> > > next, then daily-2, etc.?
> > >
> > > Would this be correct (I'm not sure of the implications of the dates in
> > > the tapelist, and whether I will need to adjust those dates as well)?:
> > > 20060803 daily-5 reuse
> > > 20060731 daily-4 reuse
> > > 20060801 daily-3 reuse
> > > 20060731 daily-2 reuse
> > > 20060802 daily-1 reuse
> > >
> > > (I'm using full dumps at the moment for every amdump run, if that
> > > helps...)
> > >
> > > Your advice will be much appreciated, as always.
> > >
>
> I think tapelist sequence is the last thing considered when
> selecting the next tape to be used. Only those used earlier
> or equal to tapecycle runs ago are considered.
>
> So yes, date does matter.
>
> Be aware that if you overwrite a tape out of sequence,
> the dumps of each DLE higher in level and newer lose a
> lot of their backup value.
>
Meant to add, amcheck -s and amtape taper each show what
tape will be selected to use next.
Save a copy of your tapelist file, edit and test.
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Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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