On Monday 11 August 2003 02:04, Stephen Carville wrote:

> Perhaps but, AFAIK, if the tape is more than one cycle old (in this
> case over seven days) it should be reusable.

I think you're getting your cycles mixed up here. You have:

> > > ---- from amanda.conf ----
> > > dumpcycle 7 days
> > > runspercycle 6
> > > tapecycle 14 tapes
> > > runtapes 3

AIUI it is the value of  tapecycle which determines the reuability of a tape. 
In your configuration, Amanda won't reuse a tape until at least 13 other 
tapes have been used since that tape was last used.


-- 
Niall