On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:26:46PM -0500, James Wilson wrote:
> Amanda is not reusing tapes in my library. I have them setup to overwrite 
> when it reaches the last tape but now I am getting this tape error. Any 
> ideas? Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush again to flush them to tape.
> The next 3 tapes Amanda expects to use are: a new tape, a new tape, 
> DailyTape-21.
> The next new tape already labelled is: WeeklyTape-14.

Amanda doesn't seem to agree with you.

When you say "I have them setup", what is "them", the library or
the amanda config.  What is your amanda config, particularly the
value of tapecycle?  How many tapes are in the library?  Why does
it think some of your tapes for the same config are called DailyTape...
and others are called WeeklyTape...?  Is the tape WeeklyTape-14 in
the library?

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