I thought it was more like: 

grep -v no-reuse tapelist | sort -rk nnn

where 'nnn' is the column of the last date used. (I don't have an amanda
server handy to check the exact column.) 

Of course the source code is authoritative. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Carville [mailto:carville AT cpl DOT net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:19 AM
> To: Amanda Users
> Subject: Tape Order
> 
> 
> How does Amanda select which tape(s) to use next?  I am trying to 
> write a program to list the tape for the next N days so the tech can 
> load the changer.  However, the program isn't always right.  I 
> thought that Amanda just read the tapelist from bottom up, dropping 
> anything labeled "no-reuse" but it doesn't seem to be that simple.
> 
> -- 
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