Thanks for the help. I had my tapecycle set too high.
I want to say that this is one of the most helpful lists I have ever been
subscribed to. Thanks again.
Andrew
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Chris Marble wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 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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> My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway..
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