Jon,

Thanks!  I want to be sure I understand correctly:

0 monday1 reuse
0 tuesday1 reuse

Am I on track?

--acorn

Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Arthur Smith wrote:

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me with a confusing situation i've gotten myself into...

First of all, I have configured and tested Amanda to satisfaction, and am ready to use it in production. Thus, I found and followed the steps in this FAQ:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id346890

        

Ok, I'm done with testing /Amanda/, now I want to put it in production. How can I reset its databases so as to start from scratch?

...

   TAPE MANAGEMENT

The /tapelist/ file contains the list of tapes in active use. This file is maintained entirely by Amanda and should not be created or edited during normal operation.

So.... Now that i have amanda all set up, and have all my tapes properly labeled, I have deleted my tapelist file, and don't know where to go from here!

Thanks in advance for any help!

You certainly can relabel all the tapes.  Use the -f option to
force overwriting the existing amanda label on the tape.
First you may have to create an empty tapelist file,
owned by the amanda user/group with rw for owner.

Alternatively you can manually create the entire file with
lines of the form:

  0 <tape_label> reuse

For example here are four lines from an old tapelist file:


0 FTape-12 reuse
0 FTape-11 reuse
20031031 FTape-10 reuse
20031030 FTape-09 reuse

The top two tapes have not been used yet, the bottom two were.
Your entries should look like the top two but with your tape
labels rather than FTape-XX.

jl

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