I've set up amanda successfully, with a tape in the drive (labelled
with amlabel). amcheck was passed. When I tried to run amdump straight
(/usr/local/sbin/amdump Daily), the email report below was delivered.

What have I done wrong? Is there any other info needed to help me out?

Thanks,

tom

###begin email report:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  localhost  /home lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:00
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         -- 
Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         -- 

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         -- 


NOTES:
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home.


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
localhost    /home       0 FAILED ---------------------------------------

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