On Thursday 09 September 2004 13:52, Andreas wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Thursday 09 September 2004 18:05, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:18:19PM +0200, Andreas Putzo wrote:
>> > So i wonder, if there is a way to ask amanda to start a new
>> > dumpcycle?
>>
>> I think "active tape" here means used more recently than other
>> tapes in your tapecycle.  In fact, more recently than tapecycle
>> minus 1 tapes in case you rotate more tapes than your tapecycle
>> setting (as I do).
>> For example, if your tapecycle is 14 and amanda is expecting
>> the 7th tape, just because you "start a new dumpcycle" does
>> not make amanda go back to tape 1.  It still wants the next
>> tape in the cycle.
>
>Ah ok. So what i really wanted to do is changing the tape order.
>
>The problem is, that the tapes (hardware-)labeled with weekdays
>and i found no time to instruct my co-workers to re-label the tapes
> (i have no physical access to do it myself) since i moved over to
> amanda. Sometimes they forget to change the tapes and the next day
> amanda complains about the false tape.
>I think, i should hurry up that re-labeling thing a bit.. ;-)
>
>regards,
>Andreas

IMO labeling an amanda tape with the weekday its supposed to be used 
is a humungous waste of time, for precisely the above reason.  Just 
number them using something you can setup a regex pattern for in your 
amanda.conf. 

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