On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 at 9:37pm, Jay Ted wrote

> 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? 

No.  Amanda uses the tapes in the order they were first used, period.  It 
doesn't care how long it's been since a tape was used.

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