tapelist file is empty??

Folks,

I am having trouble with 2.4.2p2-4 (Debian stable) since I switched to a LTO
drive
(the ones with 100GB on each tape).

I have 6 cartridges in my rotation labeled LTO01-LTO06

I noticed that the tapelist file in the /etc/amanda/LTO/ directory is empty.
I don't know how long it's been, but as a result, I can't get file listings
in amrecover because amanda thinks I don't have any tape.
This used to work: I have recovered things from the LTO tapes several times.

Every night amanda runs, it thinks it's dealing with a "new tape".

I have 2 questions:

1) How do I restore a valid tapelist file? I tried to fake one yesterday by
working out the dates of the last runs and adding lines like
20030408 LTO05 reuse

But amanda emptied this file when it ran last night...The tapelist.yesterday
file was also modified yesterday to have the previous day's entries. This
one was not wiped out by amanda when it ran last night...
As a by product of my hand-writing the tapelist file, I was then able to use
amrecover properly.

2) Why does amanda empty this file when it runs?

all the tapes were labeled with amlabel.

Any ideas?

 - Renaud



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