> --On Wednesday, October 09, 2002 16:53:55 +0200 Toralf Lund
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I think the real question is:
>>
>> How does Amanda decide what tape to use next, and what tapes are
>> considered active, when there are more than "tapecycle" different
>> labels?
>
> Amanda asks for the oldest tape (or tapes if you have runtapes > 1),
> but she will accept any tape that is not in the last "tapecycle" number
> of tapes. You can take certain tapes out the sequence for permanent
> archiving by the command "amadmin yourconfig no-reuse thetapelabel".
What exactly does that mean? That no tape labelled "thetapelabel" will be
accepted in the future, or just that the one that currently has the label
won't be reused?
>
> That means if you have 20 tapes, and a tapecycle of 4 tapes, and the
> last backup was on tape 10, Amanda will ask for tape 11, but accept
> any of the oldest 16 tapes, like tape 6, or 12 or... If tape 11 and
> 6 were both marked as "no-reuse", then it will ask for tape 12, and
> if you feed her tape 6, she will refuse to overwrite that tape.
>
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