1TAPELIST(5) File formats and conventions TAPELIST(5)
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6 tapelist - The list of Amanda volumes in use
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9 The tapelist file contains the list of tapes in active use. This file
10 is not ordinarily ordinarily edited or examined manually. Its format
11 may change, or it may be removed altogether, in future versions of
12 Amanda. It contains lines of the form:
13 YYYYMMDD label flags [#comment]
15 Where YYYYMMDD is the date the tape was written, label is a label for
17 the tape as written by amlabel and flags is one of "reuse" or
18 "no-reuse" and tells Amanda whether the tape may be reused. A
19 non-reusable tape will not be overwritten, even if it is older than
20 dumpcycle dumps. See the reuse options of amadmin(8). The optional
21 comment is prefixed with a ´#´ and continues to the end of the line.
22 Amanda will maintain this comment until the tape is overwritten. Note
23 that comments are not allowed on blank lines.
24 Amdump and amflush will by default refuse to write to an unlabeled
26 tape, or to a labeled tape that is considered active or marked
27 "no-reuse". There must be more tapes in active rotation (see the
28 tapecycle option) than there are runs in the backup cycle (see the
29 dumpcycle option) to prevent overwriting a backup image that would be
30 needed to do a full recovery.
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33 James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
34 Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw@amanda.org>
36 Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
38 Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
39Amanda 2.6.1p2 11/05/2009 TAPELIST(5)