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22 tapelist \- The list of \fIAmanda\fR volumes in use
27 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
28 \fIAmanda\fR\&. It contains lines of the form:
31 YYYYMMDD label flags [#comment]
36 is the date the tape was written,
38 is a label for the tape as written by
42 is one of "reuse" or "no\-reuse" and tells
44 whether the tape may be reused\&. A non\-reusable tape will not be overwritten, even if it is older than
49 \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\&.
54 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
56 option) than there are runs in the backup cycle (see the
58 option) to prevent overwriting a backup image that would be needed to do a full recovery\&.
61 \fBJames da Silva\fR <\&jds@amanda\&.org\&>
63 \fBStefan G\&. Weichinger\fR <\&sgw@amanda\&.org\&>
65 \fBDustin J\&. Mitchell\fR <\&dustin@zmanda\&.com\&>
67 Zmanda, Inc\&. (http://www\&.zmanda\&.com)