> I have 24 tapes and a 8 tape changer. For some reason, it is going > 13->16->15->14->17. How can I fix this? can i just force it to take 14 > after 13 by only having 14 in there when it's expecting 16? My tapecycle > is 10.
On the sticker used on the tape, do a double numbering, one by Amanda label and one by human sequence (13 a) (16 b) (15 c) (14 d) (17 e) etc. Though after many years of using Amanda I never had the tapes going out of sequence, if one tape wears out, I replace it with a new tape, using the same label (amlabel -f), but I do the replacement only the very day I should have been reusing the bad tape. When a dump resolve that tape 7 is faulty, I continue with tape 8 and etc, only when Amanda ask to use tape 7 again, I label a new tape 7 and use that new 7. I do that with a PostIt on the bad tape to remind me that I must replace that tape the next time I try to use it. Olivier
