On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:38:46PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > > I thought amanda would just read from the bottom of the list. > > Nope, amanda goes by date first. List position is only significant > when 2 or more tapes have the same last-used date. > > > When it > > was done with tape 009, 010 was at the bottom of the list and was used. > > Now 010 is done, and 011 is at the bottom of the list. Why isn't it > > just taking that, instead of "trying to read my mind"? :-) > > Just a guess, but I'd say it's because "0" is not a valid date, so > those lines are being ignored completely.
Those lines are what results when you amlabel a tape. If your surmisation was correct, amanda would never use any tapes. -- John Oliver, CCNA http://www.john-oliver.net/ Linux/UNIX/network consulting http://www.john-oliver.net/resume/ *** sendmail, Apache, ftp, DNS, spam filtering *** **** Colocation, T1s, web/email/ftp hosting ****
