Thanks for your insight into this.
As it stands, I'm only using 5 tapes and amanda hasn't "gone into
production" yet. So it really is a small matter if I "lose" what has
already been backed up to those tapes. In fact, if I amrmtape'd all of the
existing tapes and start over again, it wouldn't really matter at this
stage. However, I want to put amanda into production this week, so would
like to have everything looking nice and neat.
This is purely as a convenience to me - I just don't like the tape numbers
being out of sequence...
Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> 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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