On Wednesday 07 May 2008, FM wrote:
>Tx for the reply,
>What is strange is that some files are several months old.
>
>Does Amanda also need these old ones ?

If the tape they go with has been re-used due to reaching the end of 
the 'tapecycle', then they can go.  If you have some labeled 'no-reuse' that 
might correspond to an archived tape, then hang onto them.

>Regards,
>
>Paul Bijnens wrote:
>> On 2008-05-07 17:44, FM wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Is it safe to do some clean up in this folder ?
>>
>> No.  It's the list of statefiles, which gnutar uses to decide
>> if a file should be in the incremental backup.
>>
>> Erasing them (or getting them out of sync) will result in incrementals
>> be much larger than normal.



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