Patrick M. Hausen schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote:
> 
>>      thanks, but does this also mean, that in future times I have always to
>> put the tapes in ...-02-06-03-... order, or does *she* switch over to
>> 02-06-03-04-05-01-02-03-04-05-06-01... automatically, so that the newest
>> tape is in fact added at the end of the list after one full cycle?
> 
> Amanda may reorder tapes to be used any time, anyway.
> Set up a cron job that executes amcheck every morning and
> sends you the ouput via email. It contains the information
> which tape Amanda expects next.

Ralf, Patrick is correct:

Amanda tracks tape usage and tells you which tape to insert.
Either by running amcheck or 'amadmin <conf> tape', and the report mail
of amdump also contains that info.

Just let loose on this ;-)

Stefan