2 .\" Author: James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
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5 .\" Manual: File formats and conventions
6 .\" Source: Amanda 2.6.1
9 .TH "TAPELIST" "5" "01/22/2009" "Amanda 2\&.6\&.1" "File formats and conventions"
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43 .nr an-prevailing-indent \\n[IN]
47 .HTML-TAG ".NH \\n[an-level]"
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170 tapelist \- The list of \fIAmanda\fR volumes in use
175 file contains the list of tapes in active use\&. This file is not ordinarily ordinarily edited or examined manually\&. Its format may change, or it may be removed altogether, in future versions of
176 \fIAmanda\fR\&. It contains lines of the form:
179 YYYYMMDD label flags [#comment]
184 is the date the tape was written,
186 is a label for the tape as written by
190 is one of "reuse" or "no\-reuse" and tells
192 whether the tape may be reused\&. A non\-reusable tape will not be overwritten, even if it is older than
197 \fBamadmin\fR(8)\&. The optional comment is prefixed with a \'#\' and continues to the end of the line\&. Amanda will maintain this comment until the tape is overwritten\&. Note that comments are not allowed on blank lines\&.
202 will by default refuse to write to an unlabeled tape, or to a labeled tape that is considered active or marked "no\-reuse"\&. There must be more tapes in active rotation (see the
204 option) than there are runs in the backup cycle (see the
206 option) to prevent overwriting a backup image that would be needed to do a full recovery\&.
209 \fBJames da Silva\fR <\&jds@amanda\&.org\&>
211 \fBStefan G\&. Weichinger\fR <\&sgw@amanda\&.org\&>
213 \fBDustin J\&. Mitchell\fR <\&dustin@zmanda\&.com\&>
215 Zmanda, Inc\&. (\FChttp://www\&.zmanda\&.com\F[])