Bernard McAuley wrote:

I have two problems with this.  Firstly, I can't use an inifinite tape
cycle according to the configuration file, other than using a very large
number is there a way I can ensure that Amanda won't want to recycle the
tapes at a future date.

Use "amadmin ... no-reuse", like:

admin ConFig no-reuse TheArchiveTape-001

My second problem is that I don't want Amanda 'planning' the dumps and
deciding to wait until the next cycle to dump certain systems.  To this
end I've set dump cycle to 0 weeks and runspercycle to 0.  Is this the
correct, or indeed a sensible thing to do?

Yes.
Next two options are nice to add too, to avoid incremental
backups, and even estimates for incremental (speed up):

        skip-incr yes
        strategy noinc

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