This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>>The tapelist file says my tape ANCHOR3 is reusable.  Grepping through the
>>output of amadmin export for ANCHOR3 returns nothing.  However, amcheck
>>tells me that it can't overwrite active tape ANCHOR3.
>>
>>There are 16 tapes in the tapecycle, runtapes is 1, dumpcycle is 5 days,
>>runspercycle is 5.
>>
>>Where is amcheck looking for the active tape list?  How can I see what
>>amcheck thinks is on ANCHOR3 that is so important still?
>
>Further to this, the file ANCHOR3.toc in /var/lib/amanda/anchor tells me the
>date of all the dumps on that tape date back 3 months.  That's probably
>correct, and there have definitely been level 0 dumps of everything since
>then.

Bah, I created those files in July!

Anyway, I've cross checked this tape against the database with amadmin find,
and I'm confident it doesn't have anything important on it, so amrmtape
and amlabel later i have a shiny new ANCHOR3 which amcheck is accepting.
I'd still like to know why amcheck didn't like it in the first place.

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