[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> This morning I needed to overwrite an old tape. I looked in the tapelist
> file and my tape is listed as reuse. If I try to flush data to that tape
> I get the error "cannot overwrite active tape". Must I run an amrmtape
> before I can reuse a tape? I feel I am missing some piece of this puzzle,
> so if one could shed some light. Thanks again in advance for your help.
In you amanda.conf file you specify tapecycle. Using that and dumpcycle
and runspercycle Amanda figures out how often you should reuse a tape.
If you lower tapecycle then you should be able to reuse this tape without
problems.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager
My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.
