Hi Paul
You were right in pointing out that I have used a different 
amanda.conf file. However the changes in this file and that file are 
minimal (like nst0 instead of st0).  You might be right when you 
say "by using a rewinding device, I might have overwirtten the name ", 
I am not sure how to answer this. I tried to rename the tape 
by "amlabel normal normal05" which should be the tape it should be 
expecting. When I do this it says the label is already present in the 
drive. How can do a manual dump for time being immediately?. IS there  
any way I can force amanda to do backup on the tape irrespective of 
its label?.

I appreciate your help.
Regards
Yogish

> Yogish wrote:
> > Hi all
> >  
> > I am facing problems with the tapes. Everytime I try to run 
> > amcheck,amverify or amdump it says its expecting a new tape. Here 
are 
> > the results it puts out when I run amcheck
> >  
> > Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> > -----------------------------
> > Holding disk /home/amanda: 29635568 KB disk space available, 
that's plenty
> > ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error
> >        (expecting a new tape)
> > NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> > Server check took 0.016 seconds
> 
> 
> I strongly believe that the amanda.conf you send is not the one
> that is used!  Or you changed it very recently.
> 
>  From your amanda.conf:
> 
>  > tapedev "/dev/st0"
> 
> This is wrong: it is the rewinding device, and if I remember 
correctly
> I pointed out this and other errors in your amanda.conf a few weeks 
ago:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/46994
> 
> But the amcheck above says it uses /dev/nst0, so assume that the
> current amanda.conf is a different one...
> 
> It could be that by using the rewinding device, you accidently
> overwrote the label.  Was this what happened?
> 
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