On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:54:33PM -0700, jeffrey d anderson wrote:

> I've begun using the new tape spanning feature of amanda 2.4.5 and it
> seems to work quite well.
[ ... ]
> Periodically I pull a set of tapes from my changer to be set aside for 
> archival purposes.   In the past I have relied on `amadmin info` to tell me 
> what tapes would need to be pulled to have a full dumpcycle.  Now it seems, 
> with tape spanning, this information is not quite accurate.
> 
> I'm not quite sure what the solution is, since this is a new condition for 
> amanda (a single DLE dump not residing on a single tape).

You might check out the amandatape utility I posted to this list on Feb, 14.
It reports correctly the information you need.  But make sure you also apply
the patch I posted on Feb, 17.