I just realized that I replied to an individual user instead of the group and user - my bad. I'm going to repost for future reference on others possibly running into the same problem: -------------------------- Ok, I must be missunderstanding something here... Sorry for my lack of knowledge (this is my first time setting up Amanda). I was going off the aassumption that the backup package would automatically label a tape inserted into the drive on backup (like backupexec / arcserve). I just played around with it a bit after reading the man page on it. I was able to label a tape with DailySet111. After running the amlabel, I was able to run amcheck and I didn't receive an e-mail (which I assume is the way it's supposed to be). Where can I find more information on the amlabel piece (other than man)? Is there a way to automate this? The person that will be changing the tapes is not very technical at all, actually quite technophobic... Thanks much! Scott
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 10/14/2003 1:24 PM To: Johnson, S; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: --On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:54:34 -0500 "Johnson, S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on my original problem of the service not seemingly > running under the user Amanda when I think I discovered another issue, > perhaps related to my problem. When I do an amcheck -m DailySet1 I get > the following email sent to me: > > > DailySet1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Holding disk /var/tmp: 7250452 KB disk space available, that's plenty > ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error > (expecting a new tape) > NOTE: skipping tape-writable test > NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist > NOTE: it will be created on the next run > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > I was able to run system level commands like > mt -f /dev/nst0 erase > > And I was able to backup directly to the tape device ok. > > I only found a couple of other people that were experiencing an issue > similar to what I'm seeing. One stated that a "mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk > 0" fixed their issue. I tried this and got the same message. > > I've tried 3 different brand new out of the wrapper tapes so I don't > think it's a tape issue. I'm also able to backup by copying files > directly to the tape drive. > > Any ideas? > Thanks much. Were you able to successfully run amlabel on the tape first? Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501