On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:29:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) why does amanda want to use a tape in a cycle when two tapes past said > tape are already used?
Because it has the oldest data on it. The numbers on the tape labels mean nothing to amanda, it just asks for whatever is (according to tapelist) oldest. > 2) how do I get amanda to use the correct tape in my cycle. Edit your tapelist file (/etc/amanda/Daily/tapelist for my system, probably somewhere else on yours), find the tape that you want to use next, and change the date associated with the tape you want to move. The order of the lines in the file is normally ignored, but if there are two tapes with the same date, the one closer to the bottom of the list is considered to be older. > 3) any idea how this happened? Have you recently edited the tapelist file or changed the number of tapes in use? Rotated a tape into or out of circulation?
