.\" Title: tapelist
.\" Author: James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
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-.\" Date: 11/05/2009
+.\" Date: 06/01/2010
.\" Manual: File formats and conventions
-.\" Source: Amanda 2.6.1p2
+.\" Source: Amanda 3.1.0
.\" Language: English
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-.TH "TAPELIST" "5" "11/05/2009" "Amanda 2\&.6\&.1p2" "File formats and conventions"
+.TH "TAPELIST" "5" "06/01/2010" "Amanda 3\&.1\&.0" "File formats and conventions"
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.SH "NAME"
-tapelist \- The list of \fIAmanda\fR volumes in use
+tapelist \- The list of Amanda 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:
+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:
.PP
.nf
YYYYMMDD label flags [#comment]
\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
+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
\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
+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\&.
+.PP
\fBAmdump\fR
and
\fBamflush\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 "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBamanda\fR(8),
+\fBamanda.conf\fR(5)
+.PP
+The Amanda Wiki:
+: http://wiki.zmanda.com/
.SH "AUTHORS"
.PP
\fBJames da Silva\fR <\&jds@amanda\&.org\&>