On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:15:19PM -0500, Henson, George Mr JMLFDC wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:33:37AM -0500, Henson, George Mr > > JMLFDC wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > I have a HP Sure Store E Silo (20 slots/2 LTO Gen 1 Drives) > > connected to my HP/UX 11i server with amanda-2.4.4 installed. > > I wrote an Amanda label to every tape in the silo. Last night > > my backup asked for Tape Daily000012. The changer (mtx) > > loaded the tape (which I had labeled Daily000012), but the > > tape had no Amanda label on it. > > > > ... > > > Has Daily000012 ever been used by amanda before so that > > you are sure it once had a label? > > No it has not been used. It was a new tape. I am sure there was a label on the media > because there I ran: > > amtape <confname> reset > amtape <confname> show > > before I started running Amanda in production at that time all tapes had a label
I've not heard of amanda trashing labels, maybe you have uncovered a defect somewhere. Consider also that nothing prevents other apps from writing to the tape and trashing a label. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
