Am I missing something really easy here.... 
 
I have 35 tapes in rotation with a Dell Powervault 120T 7 tape autochanger. 
 
Usually the backups only take about 2 or 3 tapes, I have runtapes set to 4 just 
in case.  This is still a work in progress.  The problem that I am having is 
that when amanda uses the the last set of tapes (DailyDLT-29-35) 
and the next available tapes (DailyDLT-01-07) are loaded, amanda thinks they 
are active and refuses to use them.  For example, even though the tape list 
shows an entry like "20040801 DailyDLT-01 reuse " well over 
the 7 day dumpcycle and not even containing data that is needed for a full 
dump, amanda still thinks the tape is active and won't use it.  For a 
workaround i keep having to amrmtape and amlabel to relabel it and set 
tapelist right- I know I must be missing something simple...  Am I correct in 
understanding that by setting the dumpcycle to one week that amanda should 
happily reuse any tape older than seven days provided there 
were not any errors in the previous weeks run? 
 
Here's an excerpt from my amanda.conf: 
dumpcycle 7 days  
runspercycle 7       
tapecycle 35 tapes 
bumpsize 20 Mb     
bumpdays 1            
bumpmult 4             
etimeout -3600  
dtimeout 1800   
ctimeout 1300 
tapebufs 20 
runtapes 4       
 
Thanks for any help!! 
 
Jay 
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