On 4 Mar 2003 at 7:38am, rwk AT americom DOT com wrote

> Is there any way to rerun a failed amanda run on the same tape?
> 
> For example, my monthly run on tape Monthly3 failed completely and
> didn't even finish the estimates.  It did write the first header though,
> so last months dumps are gone.
> 
> But now it is asking for Monthly1.
> 
> I want to rerun the monthly dump over again on Monthly3 (since it is
> overwritten anyway), and because I am home and can't swap out the tape.
> 
> I could not find any way to do this in the docs.

If you're sure there's nothing on the tape you want:

amrmtape $CONFIG Monthly3
amlabel $CONFIG Monthly3
amdump $CONFIG

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University