On Thursday 19 June 2003 14:41, Tom Brown wrote:
>> I also have such a situation!
>>
>> if I try to relabel it, it say that the tape is already labeled.
>> But this
>
>is
>
>> probably
>> read from tapelist file and not really from the tape.
>>
>> version 2.4.4-20030605
>> chg-zd-mtx
>
>i have a theory to my problem but not 100% certain yet.
>
>i have, today, run a amtapetype on the drive. I suspect this process
>overwrote the label on the tape.

Yes it did.

> I suspect this as i did an amlabel
> on a tape in a different system ysterday and today did an
> amtapetype. Guess what i then did an amtape config show and i got
> 'not an amanda tape'

The label must actually match the amanda maintained list I believe.

But, there is little to prevent you from useing the -f option, which 
forces the label to be written anyway.

>in my case i suspect operator error (again!)
>
>Tom

Maybe. :)

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