.\" Title: tapelist
.\" Author: James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot_8273 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 06/01/2010
+.\" Date: 06/02/2011
.\" Manual: File formats and conventions
-.\" Source: Amanda 3.1.0
+.\" Source: Amanda 3.3.0
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "TAPELIST" "5" "06/01/2010" "Amanda 3\&.1\&.0" "File formats and conventions"
+.TH "TAPELIST" "5" "06/02/2011" "Amanda 3\&.3\&.0" "File formats and conventions"
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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 [#comment]
+YYYYMMDD label flags [BARCODE:barcode] [META:meta] [#comment]
.fi
.PP
Where
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\&.
+\fBamadmin\fR(8)\&. The optional barcode is prefixed with \'BARCODE\' if the volume have a barcode\&. The optional meta label is prefixed with \'META\' if the volume is on a meta volume\&. 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