On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:07:51PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 at 12:26pm, John wrote
> 
> > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape Daily01].
> > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> > Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
> > 
> > Is there a way to make it use the existing 7 remaining tapes instead of
> > throwing a new tape at it? It's mostly a time thing for getting a new
> > tape, but it'd be nice to be able to go on with the next tape in the
> > cycle. 
> 
> Change your tapecycle to match how many tapes you have.

I still get the same message. 

I note that tapelist still shows tape Daily04 as 'reuse', even though  I
amrmtape 'd it. 

cat tapelist
20030111 Daily04 reuse
20030111 Daily03 reuse
20030110 Daily02 reuse
20030109 Daily08 reuse
20030108 Daily07 reuse
20030107 Daily01 reuse
20030106 Daily06 reuse
20030106 Daily05 reuse


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