I am not asking it to reuse tapes. There are tapes in the system that
has nothing written on them.

Tapelist
-------------------
20030917 daily25 reuse
20030916 daily24 reuse
20030916 daily23 reuse
20030916 daily22 reuse
20030916 daily21 reuse
20030916 daily20 reuse
20030915 daily19 reuse
0 daily30 reuse
0 daily29 reuse
0 daily28 reuse
0 daily27 reuse
0 daily26 reuse
-----------------------------

You can see the next tape daily26 has not been used. When I start amdump
it will load the daily26 tape and write to it.  It will fill it up and
not switch to the next tape daily27. In the disklist, each line item is
less than 25 gigs. The tapes hold 35 gigs.  

I can't see how the tapecycle is the cause? 

Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:45 AM
To: Raymond Keckler
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: RE: change tapes problem

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 at 10:37am, Raymond Keckler wrote

> dumpcycle 4 weeks       # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
> 
> runspercycle 20         # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
> 
>                         # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just
> weekdays)
> 
> tapecycle 25 tapes      # the number of tapes in rotation
> 
> I have 12 of them labeled and in the tapelist.  
> The changer knows to go from slot 19 to 30.

There's your problem.  Amanda won't start re-using tapes until it's used

tapecycle tapes.  So, it won't go back to daily01 until it's gone up 
through daily25.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University