On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:04:03PM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator 
wrote:
> Hi Great
> 
> I did see that note 
> 
> Q: Why does `amcheck' say `cannot overwrite active tape'?
> 
> A: Because, if you configure Amanda to use N tapes, by setting
> tapecycle to N in `amanda.conf', before Amanda overwrites a tape, it
> must write to at least other N-1 tapes.  Of course, Amanda will always
> refuse to overwrite a tape marked for `noreuse' with `amadmin'.
> Furthermore, such tapes are not counted when Amanda computes `N-1'
> tapes.
> 
>    If, for some reason, you want to tell Amanda to overwrite a
> particular tape, regardless of its position in the cycle, use
> `amrmtape'.  This command will remove this tape from the `tapelist'
> file, that is used to manage the tape cycle, and will delete
> information about backups stored in that tape from the Amanda
> database.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:58 +0200, Filip Rembia³kowski wrote:
> > At 06/14/05 12:19, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > > 
> > > I have finished testing phase and I would like to use the initial tape
> > > again this tape had dumped /etc which obviously didn't dump much data.
> > > I am now going to change the disklist from "/etc" to "/" what is the
> > > best way to go about it.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > 
> > just amrmtape and amlabel again :)
> > 
> > 


Man amlabel, the -f option.

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