Hi Great

I did see that note 

Q: Why does `amcheck' say `cannot overwrite active tape'?

A: Because, if you configure Amanda to use N tapes, by setting
tapecycle to N in `amanda.conf', before Amanda overwrites a tape, it
must write to at least other N-1 tapes.  Of course, Amanda will always
refuse to overwrite a tape marked for `noreuse' with `amadmin'.
Furthermore, such tapes are not counted when Amanda computes `N-1'
tapes.

   If, for some reason, you want to tell Amanda to overwrite a
particular tape, regardless of its position in the cycle, use
`amrmtape'.  This command will remove this tape from the `tapelist'
file, that is used to manage the tape cycle, and will delete
information about backups stored in that tape from the Amanda
database.

Cheers

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:58 +0200, Filip Rembiałkowski wrote:
> At 06/14/05 12:19, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I have finished testing phase and I would like to use the initial tape
> > again this tape had dumped /etc which obviously didn't dump much data.
> > I am now going to change the disklist from "/etc" to "/" what is the
> > best way to go about it.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
> just amrmtape and amlabel again :)
> 
> 
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