Hi, it is easy for you to verify if your tapelabels are valid, do the following commands:
mt rewind dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1
this will give you the first block of the tape. if the first characters there in are something like
"AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE"
then your labels are ok. if not you'll have to relabel them. How? very easy:
amlabel -f normal normal05
the -f option forces amanda to ignore its tape-database and the contents on tape an write the label anyway. Christoph
Your Name schrieb:
Hi Paul
You were right in pointing out that I have used a different amanda.conf file. However the changes in this file and that file are minimal (like nst0 instead of st0). You might be right when you say "by using a rewinding device, I might have overwirtten the name ", I am not sure how to answer this. I tried to rename the tape by "amlabel normal normal05" which should be the tape it should be expecting. When I do this it says the label is already present in the drive. How can do a manual dump for time being immediately?. IS there any way I can force amanda to do backup on the tape irrespective of its label?.
I appreciate your help. Regards Yogish
Yogish wrote:
Hi all
I am facing problems with the tapes. Everytime I try to run amcheck,amverify or amdump it says its expecting a new tape. Here
are
the results it puts out when I run amcheck
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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Holding disk /home/amanda: 29635568 KB disk space available,
that's plenty
ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error (expecting a new tape) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Server check took 0.016 seconds
I strongly believe that the amanda.conf you send is not the one that is used! Or you changed it very recently.
From your amanda.conf:
> tapedev "/dev/st0"
This is wrong: it is the rewinding device, and if I remember
correctly
I pointed out this and other errors in your amanda.conf a few weeks
ago:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/46994
But the amcheck above says it uses /dev/nst0, so assume that the current amanda.conf is a different one...
It could be that by using the rewinding device, you accidently overwrote the label. Was this what happened?
-- Paul @ Home
