On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:45:36PM +0200, Sebastian Kösters wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I got a Problem with Amanda. 
> 
> I did a backup with ?amdump <<name>>?. 
> 
> Doing the backup works fine but making a ?amcheck <<name>>?  after the
> backup (before the backup is everything ok) says the following error :
> ?cannot overwrite active tape DailySet100?.  
> After making the backup it is not possible to do the backup once again.
> 
> What must I do to make it work correctly?

Amanda works on the assumption that you have many/several/more-than-one
tape that will be used for backups.  It cycles through those tapes,
using one or more for each amdump run.  You specify the "minimum"
number of tapes in the cycle with the "tapecycle" parameter.  Each
tape must be uniquely labeled with the amlabel command before use.

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