I'm just thinking out loud here .....

In your amanda.conf, you show "tapecycle 35 tapes", but do you actually have 35 
tapes labeled & listed in tapelist?

I ran into this problem with amanda at one point.  I had tapecycle 40, but only 
had 20 tapes labeled.  As a result,
amanda was looking for the 21st tape, instead of looping back to tape #1.  
Lowering the tapecycle to 20 fixed the
problem.

-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes
> 
> 
> 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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