The most obvious solution would be to run amcheck -t <ConfigName>.

This will tell you if the tape in the drive is the one that Amanda 
expects to use.

If not (not the right tape or no tape in the drive), then the command 
will tell you which tape that Amanda wants to see in the drive.

It will NOT list all the tapes that are ready for reuse, but it will
tell you which tape to put into the drive next.

Don
Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail:  Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Twilley [mailto:jmt AT twilley DOT org]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:38 AM
To: Amanda Users
Subject: Re: How to check when tapes can be reused?


>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Sproul <esproul AT ntelos DOT net> writes:

Jack> I looked through the manual pages for amtape and amadmin but
Jack> couldn't find a command to tell me which of the tapes in my
Jack> tapelist were able to be reused at that time -- all of my tapes
Jack> are labeled "reuse" in the tapelist, but there's nothing to tell

Jack> 
Jack> Am I missing something painfully obvious?

Eric> Well, I'm not sure.  :)

Eric> The tapelist also contains the date on which the tape was last
Eric> written, with the most recent at the top (the list is ordered by
Eric> date in descending order).  So the oldest tape will be at the
Eric> bottom of the list.

Well, actually, the bottom of the list was an unused tape.

Eric> Is that what you wanted to know?

What I was hoping for was something like this:

Run the command "amsomething <config> <somethingelse>" to list all
tapes that are eligible for immediate reuse.

Eric> Eric

Jack.
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