Hi, I have amanda version 2.4.3b4-20020829 running on a SGI Origin2000 since last September and even I had a few problems (mainly I was hitting known bugs with tar and exclude lists) the last one just got me stumped and I can't clearly anymore even though I know the answer must be staring at me right in the eyes...
Essentially amanda is telling that she wants a new tape and she refuses to backup to tape but the tapes in the library should be used according to the amanda.conf dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle (see below). here's the output of amcheck: Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /holddisk/conf1: 35836836 KB disk space available, using 35836836 KB amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20030220 label 000004 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20030221 label 000005 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20030222 label 000006 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20030223 label 000007 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20030224 label 000008 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 9: date 20030225 label 000009 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 10: date 20030226 label 000010 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20030217 label 000001 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20030218 label 000002 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20030219 label 000003 (active tape) ERROR: new tape not found in rack (expecting a new tape) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Server check took 950.340 seconds -- amanda.conf -- dumpcycle 2 weeks runspercycle 14 tapecycle 40 tapes runtapes 10 tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" tapedev "/hw/tape/tps12d1nrnsv" rawtapedev "/dev/null" changerfile "/opt/amanda/amanda1/etc/amanda/stk_40-conf1/stk_40" changerdev "/dev/changer" tapetype Ultrium-SGT-LTO labelstr "^0000[0-9][0-9]*$" -- tapelist: -- 20030320 000039 reuse 20030320 000038 reuse 20030319 000037 reuse 20030318 000036 reuse 20030317 000035 reuse 20030316 000034 reuse 20030316 000033 reuse 20030315 000032 reuse 20030315 000031 reuse 20030312 000030 reuse 20030312 000029 reuse 20030312 000028 reuse 20030312 000027 reuse 20030312 000026 reuse 20030312 000025 reuse 20030311 000024 reuse 20030310 000023 reuse 20030309 000022 reuse 20030308 000021 reuse 20030307 000019 reuse 20030306 000018 reuse 20030305 000017 reuse 20030304 000016 reuse 20030303 000015 reuse 20030303 000014 reuse 20030302 000013 reuse 20030301 000012 reuse 20030228 000011 reuse 20030227 000020 reuse 20030226 000010 reuse 20030225 000009 reuse 20030224 000008 reuse 20030223 000007 reuse 20030222 000006 reuse 20030221 000005 reuse 20030220 000004 reuse 20030219 000003 reuse 20030218 000002 reuse 20030217 000001 reuse 20030212 000040 reuse TIA, jf