Long story short. Ran tapetype on a 230m tape. Then got a box of 170m tapes without noticing.
Tape 4, a 170M tape was snapped at it's end. I amrmtape tape4, and now amanda insists it needs a new tape to flush the stored backups to. I'm now gettings: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape Daily01]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. Is there a way to make it use the existing 7 remaining tapes instead of throwing a new tape at it? It's mostly a time thing for getting a new tape, but it'd be nice to be able to go on with the next tape in the cycle. Any suggestions? I google'd for this and the only useful thing relating to this is that 'it's a showstopper' which is not what I really want to hear. :( If it IS a showstopper, I'll have to hope the dump to disk has enough space til the tape can arrive. Thanks folks. j
