Re: could not find a tape to use

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Timothy Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 and I don't think they're related, but since I'm new to amanda I'm
 still @ a loss as to how to debug this error. Any help would be really
 appreciated.

What kind of tapes are you using?  This happens when Amanda cycles
through its entire changer and cannot find a suitable tape.  You might
want to check the taper debug log to see what reasons it had for not
finding tapes or not accepting the tapes it found.

Dustin

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Re: could not find a tape to use

[Paul Bijnens]

On 2008-10-30 16:39, Timothy Ball wrote:

I get this error when I try to run a amdump: http://pastebin.com/d1191d31e

in the wiki I found this:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/A_TAPE_ERROR_OCCURRED:_Could_not_find_a_tape_to_use

and I don't think they're related, but since I'm new to amanda I'm
still @ a loss as to how to debug this error. Any help would be really
appreciated.



Did you already amlabel any tapes ?
Or do you have amlabel_new_tapes yes in the amanda.conf?

What is the output amtape test-s3 show ?

That configname seems like you're trying out Amazon S3 service.
If yes, I guess you followed:
 http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_to_Amazon_S3



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