.\"     Title: tapelist
.\"    Author: James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
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.\"      Date: 01/22/2009
.\"    Manual: File formats and conventions
.\"    Source: Amanda 2.6.1
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "TAPELIST" "5" "01/22/2009" "Amanda 2\&.6\&.1" "File formats and conventions"
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.SH "Name"
tapelist \- The list of \fIAmanda\fR volumes in use
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
The
\fItapelist\fR
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
\fIAmanda\fR\&. It contains lines of the form:
.PP
.nf
YYYYMMDD label flags [#comment]
.fi
.PP
Where
\fIYYYYMMDD\fR
is the date the tape was written,
\fIlabel\fR
is a label for the tape as written by
\fBamlabel\fR
and
\fIflags\fR
is one of "reuse" or "no\-reuse" and tells
\fIAmanda\fR
whether the tape may be reused\&. A non\-reusable tape will not be overwritten, even if it is older than
\fBdumpcycle\fR
dumps\&. See the
\fBreuse\fR
options of
\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\&.
.PP
\fBAmdump\fR
and
\fBamflush\fR
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
\fBtapecycle\fR
option) than there are runs in the backup cycle (see the
\fBdumpcycle\fR
option) to prevent overwriting a backup image that would be needed to do a full recovery\&.
.SH "Authors"
.PP
\fBJames da Silva\fR <\&jds@amanda\&.org\&>
.PP
\fBStefan G\&. Weichinger\fR <\&sgw@amanda\&.org\&>
.PP
\fBDustin J\&. Mitchell\fR <\&dustin@zmanda\&.com\&>
.RS 4
Zmanda, Inc\&. (\FChttp://www\&.zmanda\&.com\F[])
.RE