Jay,

Thanks for the reply. It's unusual behavior for a query that's checking the
slots for tapes and tape labels, but I've gotten the impression Amanda is
fairly paranoid about explicit instructions. "Show me the contents of all of
the tape pod's slots" is not the same as "show me the contents of all the
tape pod's slots and then return tapes to their original locations," and
there's probably a good reason for that which I'm missing.

Anyhow, thanks to the list at large for the hand. Next stop is reconciling
large full backups (~100GB) with small incremental backups (~10GB) without
wasting tape. 

-Joel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Lessert [mailto:jayl AT accelerant DOT net] 
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:32 PM
> To: Woodman, Joel
> Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: "no slots available" error with amanda and chg-zd-mtx
 

> Yes.  In general, all(?) amanda tape operations leave the 
> tape in the drive and un-rewound unless you explicitly 
> command otherwise.