Yes. It was less effective than I might have hoped. :-/
[amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amlabel NMHPVPR NMHPVPR0001
Reading label...
Found label 'NMHPVPR0001' but it is not in the tapelist file.
Not writing label.
Not writing label.
Do I need to erase the label somehow first?
-Sandro
-----Original Message-----
From: Debra S Baddorf [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:13 PM
To: Ochressandro Rettinger <[email protected]>
Cc: Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: amflush
Did you do another “amlabel” after doing “amrmtape”?
Deb Baddorf
> On Apr 10, 2017, at 2:16 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I’m having problems with amflush and the tapelist.
>
> My backups didn’t work last night, so I swapped the tape and
> ran amflush. Amflush hung, so I tried to stop it and run it again, without
> changing the tape. In order to do that, I ran amrmtape on the tape, and
> removed it from the tapelist file. This was apparently a mistake, because
> now I can’t get amanda to do anything with that tape.
>
> [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amcheck NMHPVPR Amanda Tape Server Host
> Check
> -----------------------------
> NOTE: Holding disk '/holding': 4085694464 KB disk space available,
> using 2147483648 KB as requested FIPS mode initialized FIPS mode
> initialized FIPS mode initialized FIPS mode initialized slot 1: volume
> 'NMHPVPR0001' is not in the tapelist all slots have been loaded Taper
> scan algorithm did not find an acceptable volume.
> (expecting a new volume)
> ERROR: No acceptable volumes found
> Server check took 0.217 seconds
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> Client check: 4 hosts checked in 1.217 seconds. 0 problems found.
> (brought to you by Amanda 3.4)
>
> Is there a way to add this tape back into the tapelist
> so that I can use it to finish my amflush dump? (I don’t actually
> care if the dump is any good or not at this point, I just want the
> thing cleaned up so I can run regular backups tonight.)
>
> -Sandro
