Hi,

I have amanda version 2.4.3b4-20020829 running on a SGI Origin2000
since last September and even I had a few problems (mainly I was
hitting known bugs with tar and exclude lists) the last one just
got me stumped and I can't clearly anymore even though I know the
answer must be staring at me right in the eyes...

Essentially amanda is telling that she wants a new tape and she
refuses to backup to tape but the tapes in the library should be used
according to the amanda.conf dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle
(see below). here's the output of amcheck:

Amanda Tape Server Host Check   
-----------------------------
Holding disk /holddisk/conf1: 35836836 KB disk space available, using
35836836 KB
amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20030220 label 000004 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20030221 label 000005 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20030222 label 000006 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20030223 label 000007 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20030224 label 000008 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 9: date 20030225 label 000009 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 10: date 20030226 label 000010 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20030217 label 000001 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20030218 label 000002 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20030219 label 000003 (active tape)
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
       (expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 950.340 seconds

--
amanda.conf
--

dumpcycle 2 weeks
runspercycle 14
tapecycle 40 tapes
runtapes 10
tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"
tapedev "/hw/tape/tps12d1nrnsv"
rawtapedev "/dev/null"
changerfile "/opt/amanda/amanda1/etc/amanda/stk_40-conf1/stk_40"
changerdev "/dev/changer"
tapetype Ultrium-SGT-LTO
labelstr "^0000[0-9][0-9]*$"

--
tapelist: 
--

20030320 000039 reuse
20030320 000038 reuse
20030319 000037 reuse
20030318 000036 reuse
20030317 000035 reuse
20030316 000034 reuse
20030316 000033 reuse
20030315 000032 reuse
20030315 000031 reuse
20030312 000030 reuse
20030312 000029 reuse
20030312 000028 reuse
20030312 000027 reuse
20030312 000026 reuse
20030312 000025 reuse
20030311 000024 reuse
20030310 000023 reuse
20030309 000022 reuse
20030308 000021 reuse
20030307 000019 reuse
20030306 000018 reuse
20030305 000017 reuse
20030304 000016 reuse
20030303 000015 reuse
20030303 000014 reuse
20030302 000013 reuse
20030301 000012 reuse
20030228 000011 reuse
20030227 000020 reuse
20030226 000010 reuse
20030225 000009 reuse
20030224 000008 reuse
20030223 000007 reuse
20030222 000006 reuse
20030221 000005 reuse
20030220 000004 reuse
20030219 000003 reuse
20030218 000002 reuse
20030217 000001 reuse
20030212 000040 reuse


TIA,
jf