'reuse' just means that the tape is available. AMANDA will want to use the
oldest 'reuse' tape in the backup set for the next backup. IIRC, that's the
last tape in tapelist. If you run the amcheck command, it will tell you what
tape AMANDA is expecting next. If you use that tape, you will not need to
use amrmtape, which is generally used for renaming tapes or removing tapes
which are no longer usable for backup or restore (streched, melted, crushed,
etc.)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: reuse tape issue
Hello,
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.
Andrew Hall
