Check tape device as well as the labelstr values. Here are mine:
tapedev "/dev/nrsa0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
tapetype DLT1 # what kind of tape it is
labelstr "^Taeglich-[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regexp: all tapes
must match
HTH
-Christoph Sold
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>
> Hello there,
>
> I figure my last mail was less than informative - usually not my
> style and I apologize.
>
> Anyway, one problem seems to persist and I'm clueless as to what
> may cause it.
> So, my amanda server is a FreeBSD 4.3 STABLE machine with a
> Tandberg MLR1.
> amanda is version 2.4.1p1, installed from the ports.
>
> Now, what I do is the following: I try and label a tape and
> amlabel appears to do it without any complaints:
>
> $ amlabel Hundert6 Hundert601
> rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
> rewinding, writing label Hundert601, done.
>
> ... however, each and every time I try it, amlabel keeps telling
> me the tape is not an amanda tape.
>
> Consequently amcheck reports the following:
>
> ERROR: /dev/sa0: not
> an amanda tape.
> (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test.
>
> Any hint what could be causing this? I wrote the tapetype
> description for the MLR1 myself, but in an earlier post someone
> said it couldn't be the reason.
>
> Tape label description should match the regexp I used
> ("^Hundert6[0-9][0-9]*$") - but even if it didn't it should
> recognize the tape as an amanda tape, or not?
>
> Any hints?
>
> Bye, Jan
>
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