Peter Mueller wrote: >>Does anyone now why Amanda might generate an out of tape error in a >>situation where it blatantly isn't anywhere even close to the end of the >>tape? >>.... > > As I understand it, Amanda interpretes any non-ok result from the tape > device as "out of tape" - as most backup and tape handling software does.
That filesystem has since backed up successfully, so I'm writing it down to just a glitch in this case. Thanks for the above though, I hadn't actually realised that out-of-tape was Amanda's catch-all. Mike.
