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 > > ----------------------------- > > 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 > > > > --