Hello, I needed to flush a dump to tape the day before yesterday. I put the next tape in the rotation in the drive and ran amflush. That tape was tape8 in my cycle. Amflush reported an error saying tape8 was active and it would not overwrite. So I put in tape9 and ran the flush and it ran ok. Now the odd behavior. The next day I put in tape10 and the backups wrote to tape ok but the amanda mail is saying that tape8 is the next tape it wanted to use. Today tape11 was put in and it failed saying that the tape was still active, and the amanda mail is still stating that tape8 is my next tape.
1) why does amanda want to use a tape in a cycle when two tapes past said tape are already used? 2) how do I get amanda to use the correct tape in my cycle. 3) any idea how this happened? Thanks in advance. PS (my naming of the tapes are only for the purpose of this mail, but the numbers do coencide with reality). Andrew
