On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jonathan Murray wrote:
> Paul English wrote: > > > I'm getting the following error from amflush. I don't understand why it is > > requesting a new tape, I have runspercycle 10 and tapecycle 11. This is my > > first time through the cycle, and I've created an labelled Daily-00 > > through Daily-10 (and Daily-10 is the one which overflowed). > > This is amanda version 2.4.2p2 > > > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape Daily-00]. > > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > > Run amflush again to flush them to tape. > > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > runspercycle 10 ? > Does that mean 10 weeks? That might explain why it won't let you > overwrite them. No, that's just how many times it runs during a 2 week cycle ( 5 times / week - once each weekday). I figured it out - somehow my tape labelling had gotten confused. A brand new unused tape was labelled Daily-07, and no tape was actually labelled and used by amanda as Daily-08. Paul
