Sure there is a simple solution to this:
edit your amanda.conf, lower tapecycle and dumpcycle to 5 and
next time when amanda tells you it expects tape DailySet1-05,
she will happily write to tape DailySet1-04, as it's old enough
to be overwritten. Same for tape DailySet1-07 a few days later.
after that increase your tape and Dumpcycle to the old values again
and you are done.
Christoph

Gene Heskett schrieb:

On Friday 17 January 2003 21:13, DK Smith wrote:

I finally determined why my tape order is not what I expected. (by
looking at the tapelist file). I do not recall why my tape order
managed to get into this state... When I originally set things
up, *i thought* the tapes were in order...

I was seeing...

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Tues: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR January 14, 2003

These dumps were to tape DailySet1-01.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-02.

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Wed: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR January 15, 2003

These dumps were to tape DailySet1-02.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-03.

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Thur: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR January 16, 2003

These dumps were to tape DailySet1-03.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: I/O error]].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-05.

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Fri: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR January 16, 2003

These dumps were to tape DailySet1-05.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-06.

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After (finally) taking a look at my tapelist in the configuration,
I realized the reason for change in order of use that I observed:

20030117 DailySet1-06 reuse
20030116 DailySet1-05 reuse
20030116 DailySet1-03 reuse
20030116 DailySet1-02 reuse
20030114 DailySet1-01 reuse
20030113 DailySet1-15 reuse
20030110 DailySet1-07 reuse
20030109 DailySet1-04 reuse
20030108 DailySet1-16 reuse
20030107 DailySet1-14 reuse
20030106 DailySet1-13 reuse
20030103 DailySet1-12 reuse
20030102 DailySet1-11 reuse
20030101 DailySet1-10 reuse
20021231 DailySet1-09 reuse
20021230 DailySet1-08 reuse


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What (if anything) should I do to correct the order?

Can anyone suggest an elegant way to correct the order by using
interfaces supplied with AMANDA? (as opposed to starting over and
re-labelling a whole new magazine of tapes, as one option)

Not that I've ran into. I had one tape out of order for nearly a year before I had to do a clean install for other reasons. As long as you know about it, I'd just put them into whatever storage you use in the reverse of the order shown above.

I'm told that if you try to edit the above file to restore the useage order, that the backups may be scheduled odd ball or something because the dates on the index files won't then match the order of the tapes. That would eventually fix itself, but it might take a tapecycles worth of runs to square it all away again. Thats what somebody here said, so I never tried it.