On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:39:10AM -0700, johns AT msli DOT com wrote:
> I am trying to test Amanda before installing a tape drive, therefore I
> am using the tapetype HARD-DISK.
> 
> Since the backup will be about 1TB in size, I created a partition of
> this size ( /amandatapes ).
> 
> I don't have the resources to create more than one tape of this size, so
> I have to reuse the tape multiple times in one day, during the testing
> phase. 
> 
> The problem is, I need to run multiple test runs in a single day (to
> debug the errors for each disklist item), but amanda won't reuse my
> single tape until the next calender day.
> 
> I thought I read about this, but after all the reading, I can't seem to
> find it again.
> 
> Do I delete and recreate the tape?  

For testing, assuming you don't plan on examining the tape contents,
this is the way I'd go.  For some of my early testing (years ago) I
used a shell script that recreated the entire config for each test
including the tapelist file after labeling but prior to usage.


BTW how many 1TB test dumps can you do in a day?

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