> On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Were there any other tapes “available” for it to use? The one you just
> re-labeled
> will have dropped to the last of the list. If it’s the only one, it’ll
> still be the one used. If there are other free tapes that you labelled
> before this one,
> they’ll be used first.
>
> You *CAN* edit the tapelist file and move around the lines, especially
> just these
> new labels, where the date is still blank. The bottom most one (with date
> 0)
> will get used.
>
> Deb
PS You can check which one it intends to use next:
amadmin <config> tape
will show you the next one, and perhaps a few after that.
Deb
>
>
>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:36 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I did that, and it worked, but then when I ran amflush again, it didn't
>> list the tape name.
>>
>> [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amflush NMHPVPR
>> Flushing dumps from 20170408010017 using storage "NMHPVPR", tape changer
>> "tape_drive".
>>
>> Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? Y
>> Running in background, you can log off now.
>> You'll get mail when amflush is finished.
>>
>> -Sandro
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Debra S Baddorf [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:33 PM
>> To: Ochressandro Rettinger <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>; Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>;
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: amflush
>>
>> Try “amlabel -f ….. “ for “force”.
>> Be sure it’s the right tape, but I use it all the time.
>> Deb
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger
>>> <[email protected]> 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?
>>>
>>> -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
>>>
>>
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