AMRMTAPE(8)

NAME
amrmtape - remove a damaged or overwritten tape from the Amanda database

SYNOPSIS
amrmtape [-n] [-v] [-d] config tape

DESCRIPTION
Amrmtape allows you to invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape in the config configuration database. This is meant as a recovery mecanism for when a good backup is damaged either by faulty hardware or user error, i.e. the tape is eaten by the tape drive, or the tape has been overwritten. Amrmtape supports the following command line options

-n  Generate the new tapelist and curinfo.* files with the given tape removed, but leave the tapelist and curinfo.* files in /tmp and do not copy them back to the Amanda directories.

-v  List the hosts and backups of disks that are being discarded.

-d  Run the script in debugging mode so that all of the executed commands are shown.

EXAMPLE

% amrmtape DailySet1 DailySet1.034
    Remove tape DailySet1.034 from the DailySet1 configuation database.

AUTHOR
Adrian T. Filipi-Martin <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu>

SEE ALSO
amanda(8).