On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:07:51PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 at 12:26pm, John wrote > > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape Daily01]. > > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > > Run amflush to flush them to tape. > > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. > > > > Is there a way to make it use the existing 7 remaining tapes instead of > > throwing a new tape at it? It's mostly a time thing for getting a new > > tape, but it'd be nice to be able to go on with the next tape in the > > cycle. > > Change your tapecycle to match how many tapes you have.
I still get the same message. I note that tapelist still shows tape Daily04 as 'reuse', even though I amrmtape 'd it. cat tapelist 20030111 Daily04 reuse 20030111 Daily03 reuse 20030110 Daily02 reuse 20030109 Daily08 reuse 20030108 Daily07 reuse 20030107 Daily01 reuse 20030106 Daily06 reuse 20030106 Daily05 reuse j