> IIRC, you can use as many tapes as you want as long as they are equal
> or greater than "tapecycle".  I think if you set your tapecycle to 1
> you will be responsible for the ordering.
>
> Of course you will be responsible for not overwriting your only
> or last level 0's too.

  No, I believe it denies you, telling you it's expecting a new tape. If you 
don't put it a new tape, it will not overwrite one that is already in the 
tapelist.

  Perhaps you could have a cronjob that runs just before your backup that 
renames the tapelist file?  You don't want to remove it because that would 
make a mess of restores.  If you just rename it and archive it (for the 
purpose of restoring), I think that should cause Amanda to allow any tape 
that's currently in the drive to be run when it sees an empty tapelist.

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