Adding new vtapes to amanda and troubleshooting

I needed to add new vtapes to amanda after successfully adding new space via LVM. Using a one line script included in the vtape how-to on the amanda wiki, I created the additional tape directories - slot[m] to slot[n].

After this, I changed the configuration file's tapecycle parameter to reflect the advice by martineau in a zmanda forum post - that tapecycle should be at least runspercycle * runtapes.

On executing amcheck on one of the amanda configurations, I ran into an error - WARNING taper changer error: slot : Slot  is already in use by driveN. This was resolved by deleting the driveN directory as suggested by dustin in another zmanda forum post.

Earlier, an all estimate timed out error had been resolved by adding the directive estimate calcsize to the configuration's dumptype as suggested by paddy in a zmanda forum post.