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31 tapelist \- The list of Amanda volumes in use
36 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 Amanda\&. It contains lines of the form:
39 YYYYMMDD label flags [BARCODE:barcode] [META:meta] [BLOCKSIZE:blocksize] [#comment]
44 is the date the tape was written,
46 is a label for the tape as written by
50 is one of "reuse" or "no\-reuse" and tells Amanda whether the tape may be reused\&. A non\-reusable tape will not be overwritten, even if it is older than
55 \fBamadmin\fR(8)\&. The optional barcode is prefixed with \*(AqBARCODE\*(Aq if the volume have a barcode\&. The optional meta label is prefixed with \*(AqMETA\*(Aq if the volume is on a meta volume\&. The optional blocksize is prefixed with \*(AqBLOCKSIZE\*(Aq\&. The optional comment is prefixed with a \*(Aq#\*(Aq 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\&.
57 The file is sorted such that the most\-recently used tape appears on the first line, and the oldest tape appears on the last line\&.
62 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
64 option) than there are runs in the backup cycle (see the
66 option) to prevent overwriting a backup image that would be needed to do a full recovery\&.
73 : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
76 \fBJames da Silva\fR <\&jds@amanda\&.org\&>
78 \fBStefan G\&. Weichinger\fR <\&sgw@amanda\&.org\&>
80 \fBDustin J\&. Mitchell\fR <\&dustin@zmanda\&.com\&>
82 Zmanda, Inc\&. (http://www\&.zmanda\&.com)