Vicki: I have in the past needed to reuse a tape that had the backups fail for some reason or another and just reset the date code in /var/spool/amanda/<config>/tapelist to 0 instead of say, 20050318 DailySet101. So long as the date isn't set, AMANDA will think it's a new tape regardless of what the date code on the actual tape reads.
-- Nick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vicki Stanfield Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Restart back at tape 0038 I am using amanda and have been happy with it, but now there is a 20GB dump in my holding area and amanda has repeatedly tried flush it to tape and flushed nothing to the tape. I am taking care of the 20GB dump file, but I now need to reset amanda to expect tape 0038 which had no data dumped to it. How do I do this? I am getting ready to split up my amanda config to prevent the problem in the future, although truthfully, I do not understand how this problem arose. I am investigating and will likely have a question about it in the future. Vicki
