On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:27:51AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
>
> Will Amanda use any tape that is more than tapecycle entries down
> the list or only the one of the bottom ?
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:52:01PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > Hi, Tom,
> >
> > on Dienstag, 15. März 2005 at 23:32 you wrote to amanda-users:
> >
> > TS> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:25 -0700, Tom Schutter wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 01:03 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > >> > While amanda is always willing to use a new tape in its rotation,
> > >> > it refuses to reuse a tape until at least 'tapecycle' number of
> > >> > other tapes have been used.
> >
> > TS> Ooops. I think that should be:
> > TS> While amanda is always willing to use a new tape in its rotation,
> > TS> it refuses to reuse a tape until at least 'tapecycle-1' number of
> > TS> other tapes have been used.
> >
> > 10 points for that.
> > --
> > best regards,
> > Stefan
Any, with the appropriate label, new or previously used,
if not in the tapecycle-1 group.
Hmm, as I write that, I'm not sure on a point. Suppose
I have a tape with a proper label, but it does not appear
in the tapelist file (perhaps due to hand editing or some
other cosmic malady). Will amanda use that properly labeled,
improperly listed tape? And maybe add it to the tapelist?
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