Have you tried: amtape {config} show
to see if amanda thinks the tape label is correct ? Scott... Scott R. Burns NETCON Technologies Inc. Suite 135 - 4474 Blakie Road London, Ontario, Canada N6L 1G7 Voice: +1.519.652.0401 Fax: +1.519.652.9275 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lars Sørensen Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:49 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Strange behaviour by amanda/tape device Hi all, I have amanda 2.4.3 running on a RedHat 9 an old setup I know and it has been running for three years almost without problems :-) But last saturdays backup never finished but aprox. 12 hours after the job started I received the following mail: Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /backup: 154964584 KB disk space available, using 154933864 KB WARNING: skipping tape test because amdump or amflush seem to be running WARNING: if they are not, you must run amcleanup Server check took 0.001 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- Client check: 2 hosts checked in 1.117 seconds, 0 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3) I tried to run amcleanup but it wouldn't run since amanda was still running, then I rebooted the machine and ran amcleanup when it came back online, after that I'm experiencing a weird error: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label BackUp06 or new tape not found in rack]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush again to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: BackUp06. so nothing gets backed up :-( And the weird thing is that the tape mentioned is in fact in the rack and in the right place. I've tried starting with tape 5 in the drive and watched as the tapechanger substituted that tape with tape 6 into the drive and then producing the exact same error as above ? ? ? Anyone got any ideas at all as to what is going on? btw I also tried moving all the tapelist, amdump, amflush and other log files out of the but that did not help either. thanks in advance