Jukka Salmi wrote:

OK, I'll try that... But hmm, why does one get warned if
tapecycle <= runspercycle? How could that be a problem?

Because in a sane backup scheme you avoid to overwrite the last
good backup.
Actually, that is what's happening in your case when you don't
change the tape, and instruct amanda to use that tape anyway,
by specifying tapecycle 1.
If anything happens while creating the new backup, you don't have
a good current backup, AND you don't have the previous anymore
either.  With 20 tapes, hopefully you do have still some older
backups, but the last good one (usually the most important)
just got trashed.
Amanda warns you about this.
(The above is also true for numbers > 1 ).

(why didn't I see that this morning?)

You probably tried out the advice you gave me ;-)

I had a coffee or two, actually.

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