Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Craig Dewick schrieb: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: It's best to maintain consistency in all the information amanda has about tapes and backups. Agreed. When I used to have a DAT array (quite a number of years back) it worked very well. I have about twice as many tapes in

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-12 Thread Craig Dewick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: It's best to maintain consistency in all the information amanda has about tapes and backups. Agreed. When I used to have a DAT array (quite a number of years back) it worked very well. I have about twice as many tapes in my regular rotation as my

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Before you try to label a tape, you should fix the changer configuration. Which changer script are you using? If it's chg-zd-mtx, can you use mtx to move tape in the library? What is your config? What is in the changer debug file? Use the amtape command to move tape. Once that will work, you

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-11 Thread Craig Dewick
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis schrieb: For that, when I use the amlabel command to change the tape label and configuration, I get a message as follows: tape is in another amanda configuration rewinding tape not labeled amlabel -f {Setname} In my case (just

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Craig Dewick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis schrieb: For that, when I use the amlabel command to change the tape label and configuration, I get a message as follows: tape is in another amanda configuration rewinding tape not

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Craig Dewick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis schrieb: For that, when I use the amlabel command to change the tape label and configuration, I get a message as follows: tape is in another amanda configuration rewinding tape not labeled amlabel -f {Setname}

Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-03 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I need to reuse a tape which was used for an old amanda configuration to a newly created amanda configuration, for some reason. For that, when I use the amlabel command to change the tape label and configuration, I get a message as follows: tape is in another amanda configuration

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Can anybody kindly suggest the right way to get this done? Is the old label still in your tapelist? maybe you should make it clear that Amanda will not use that old lable anymore. One brute force way would be to overwrite the tape with some garbage first, then label it with Amanda. Olivier

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-03 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Yogesh Hasabnis schrieb: For that, when I use the amlabel command to change the tape label and configuration, I get a message as follows: tape is in another amanda configuration rewinding tape not labeled amlabel -f {Setname} -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung Systemadministration) Zentrum fuer