Amanda-Users

relabel (was Re: Amanda always doing full backup?)

2009-05-14 13:06:11
Subject: relabel (was Re: Amanda always doing full backup?)
From: Brandon Metcalf <brandon AT geronimoalloys DOT com>
To: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:54:45 -0500 (CDT)
d == dustin AT zmanda DOT com writes:

 d> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Brandon Metcalf
 d> <brandon AT geronimoalloys DOT com> wrote:
 d> > Yep, this makes sense based on the notes from the planner.  I guess
 d> > the only reason it would be a problem is if I'm running out of space
 d> > on which I stored the backups?

 d> This is one of many reasons that oversubscribing your vtapes is a
 d> problematic configuration.  If your vtapes are oversubscribed, you
 d> need to pay *very* close attention to what Amanda is doing, and make
 d> adjustments early, before Amanda finds a vtape with 0kb available.


Makes sense.  And I've managed to mess up my virtual tapes.  Based on
your email I thought I would delete some of my virtual tapes using
rm(1).  I did, but then wanted to add some back.  I recreated them
with mkdir(1), but when I try to label them I get

  amlabel: label DailySet1-25 already on a tape

I assume this is because /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist already has
this label listed.

Do I need to relabel the tapes I deleted and then added back?

-- 
Brandon