This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>The tapelist file says my tape ANCHOR3 is reusable.  Grepping through the
>output of amadmin export for ANCHOR3 returns nothing.  However, amcheck
>tells me that it can't overwrite active tape ANCHOR3.
>
>There are 16 tapes in the tapecycle, runtapes is 1, dumpcycle is 5 days,
>runspercycle is 5.
>
>Where is amcheck looking for the active tape list?  How can I see what
>amcheck thinks is on ANCHOR3 that is so important still?

Further to this, the file ANCHOR3.toc in /var/lib/amanda/anchor tells me the
date of all the dumps on that tape date back 3 months.  That's probably
correct, and there have definitely been level 0 dumps of everything since
then.

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