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labelling of reused tapes

2006-10-10 15:16:39
Subject: labelling of reused tapes
From: Steven Settlemyre <settlemy AT asel.udel DOT edu>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:00:32 -0400
I have a monthly backup config with runtapes=3 and 59 tapes in the tapecycle. The instructions I was originally given say to run a script that looks in tapelist, find the highest # then label the next 3 tapes starting from there. This seems wrong because then it wouldn't be a cycle. My question is when I do amcheck, it tells me "(expecting tape Monthly04 or a new tape)". But the next tape I have in my hand is currently labeled Monthly50 which is correct because it is in the tapelist as "20051107 Monthly50 reuse". How do I solve this problem? How do I tell amanda to look for "Monthly50" instead of "Monthly04"? Or how do i have amanda use the tape I give it as long as it's not recently used?

Thanks
Steve

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