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.\" Title: tapelist
.\" Author: James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
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-.\" Date: 12/14/2010
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.76.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 02/21/2012
.\" Manual: File formats and conventions
-.\" Source: Amanda 3.2.1
+.\" Source: Amanda 3.3.1
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "TAPELIST" "5" "12/14/2010" "Amanda 3\&.2\&.1" "File formats and conventions"
+.TH "TAPELIST" "5" "02/21/2012" "Amanda 3\&.3\&.1" "File formats and conventions"
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+.\" * Define some portability stuff
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+.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
+.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
+.el .ds Aq '
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.\" * set default formatting
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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 [BARCODE:barcode] [#comment]
+YYYYMMDD label flags [BARCODE:barcode] [META:meta] [#comment]
.fi
.PP
Where
dumps\&. See the
\fBreuse\fR
options of
-\fBamadmin\fR(8)\&. The optional barcode is prefixed with \'BARCODE\' if the volume have a barcode\&. 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\&.
+\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 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\&.
.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