On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 08:17:16PM +0000, Ochressandro Rettinger wrote: > 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?
amanda is protecting you from overwriting a labelled tape. Force it to label the tape with the "-f" option. Jon > > -----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 >>> End of included message <<< -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
