On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:19:12AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know, please?
> 
> Will appreciate your thoughts a lot.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Joe Donner wrote:
> > 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > my tapelist has become a bit confused, due to my own fault, by me adding
> > tapes in the "middle" of my numbered sequence.  At the moment it looks
> > like this:
> > 20060803 daily-5 reuse
> > 20060802 daily-1 reuse
> > 20060801 daily-3 reuse
> > 20060731 daily-4 reuse
> > 20060731 daily-2 reuse
> > 
> > daily-5 was used last night, and amanda now wants daily-2.
> > 
> > What is the correct way of editing this so amanda will use the daily-1
> > next, then daily-2, etc.?
> > 
> > Would this be correct (I'm not sure of the implications of the dates in
> > the tapelist, and whether I will need to adjust those dates as well)?:
> > 20060803 daily-5 reuse
> > 20060731 daily-4 reuse
> > 20060801 daily-3 reuse
> > 20060731 daily-2 reuse
> > 20060802 daily-1 reuse
> > 
> > (I'm using full dumps at the moment for every amdump run, if that
> > helps...)
> > 
> > Your advice will be much appreciated, as always.
> > 
 
I think tapelist sequence is the last thing considered when
selecting the next tape to be used.  Only those used earlier
or equal to tapecycle runs ago are considered.

So yes, date does matter.

Be aware that if you overwrite a tape out of sequence,
the dumps of each DLE higher in level and newer lose a
lot of their backup value.

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