Hello, I had an amanda tape (DLTIV) that all of a sudden became corrupt. AMANDA kept returning these errors in amreport:
These dumps were to tape daily0_tape3. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: Input/output error]]. 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: daily0_tape4. When I ran su amanda -c "amcheck daily0" on that tape, I got an error that read something like this: I/O error cannot read label This isn't a very important tape as it's overwritten every 5 days, so I ran amrmtape on it and then added it back with amlabel. Anyway, in the end, amflush worked when I ran it on the tape. But I was wondering if I should have just tried to run amlabel on the tape (in hopes that a new label would fix the problem) instead of removing the tape first. Any suggestions as to how to handle future label problems like this? Thanks, Brad
