On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:12:14PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Yep. A tape must be at least <tapecycle> tapes old before amanda will > > agree to reuse it. So for you, with tapecycle set to 14, amanda will > > refuse to overwrite the last 14 tapes that have been used. > > Why then does my tapelist have reuse at the end of every single tape's > entry ?
Presumably (i.e., I'm guessing here) because the tape will, eventually, be reused. This doesn't necessarily mean that it's valid for reuse right now - put yesterday's tape back in the drive, run amcheck, and you'll be told something like ERROR: cannot overwrite active tape Daily14.
