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.

Thank folks for the helpful tips. I've edited my amanda.conf to read 7
tapes. I've also removed the broken tape 4 out of my tapelist. 

The trouble is that a cow-orker was making some edits and left some
amanda.conf files laying about. I ended up changing the wrong file a few
times. I've since smacked the cow-orker up side the head with an old 5G
ESDI hard drive. Left a nice mark ;)     And now the extra amanda.conf
is removed from the server. 

Thanks again list for the prompt help from everyone. 

j