Long story short. Ran tapetype on a 230m tape. Then got a box of 170m tapes without noticing. Tape 4, a 170M tape was snapped at it's end. I amrmtape tape4, and now amanda insists it needs a new tape
I still get the same message. I note that tapelist still shows tape Daily04 as 'reuse', even though I amrmtape 'd it. cat tapelist 20030111 Daily04 reuse 20030111 Daily03 reuse 20030110 Daily02 reuse
** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape Daily01]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new
Author: Jason Brooks <jason.brooks AT windriver DOT com>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:17:26 -0800
Hello, I believe the order of your tapelist dictates to amanda what the next tape should be. the last entry is the next tape. Assuming you have entered a new tape number 4, you might ensure that is t
Thank folks for the helpful tips. I've edited my amanda.conf to read 7 tapes. I've also removed the broken tape 4 out of my tapelist. The trouble is that a cow-orker was making some edits and left so