i'm currently stuck. I cant do any backup, amcheck says it's not an amanda tape. I tried to label the tape but amlabel says that the label is already on the tape. So i did a amrmtape. Now i'm having trouble labelling the tape again. These tapes have been used before for amanda.. abt six mths ago, so now i'm doing a new installation, that's why the labels are still there.
This is my "dmesg"
blk: queue f7e16e18, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT1 Rev: 5032 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue c8eaa218, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) (scsi0:A:5): 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
What is the output of "mt -f /dev/nst0 status"?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda $ amlabel tuesday tuesday2 amlabel: label tuesday2 already on a tape
That's because amanda has this tape in the tapelist file, the file that contains all the tape(-label)s and dates when last used. This file is consulted to tell you which tape is expected next.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] tuesday $ amrmtape tuesday tuesday2 amrmtape: preserving original database in curinfo.orig.28037 (exported).
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] tuesday $ amlabel tuesday tuesday2 rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label tuesday2, checking label amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/nst0 is non-rewinding?
So amanda relabeled the tape, but when checking if it wrote it correctly, it failed. You have to find out why that is.
Bad tape? Wrong blocksize? Bad karma?
What is the output of "mt -t /dev/nst0 status" now?
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