On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:12:11PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> Since re-reading the manpage, thanks to some advice here, I've increased
> runtapes to 2, which I think will solve this.  I didn't realise that it was
> an upper limit rather than an absolute, although I'm still unconvinced that
> Amanda will continue to use only one tape except in this extreme case; we'll
> see in the next week how well it goes.

Just a point of example;  I've had runtapes 3 for about 2 years but very
few days exceed 1 tape.  Where it helps me is when I'm lazy and forget
to change the tape magazine and let several, or a week's worth, of
dumps build on the holding disk.  When I finally change the magazine
and run amflush, amanda will use up to 3 tapes.  If runtapes were 1,
then I'd have to do many amflushes.

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