Hi, Brendon,

on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 10:31 you wrote to amanda-users:

>> What do you mean? AMANDA always expects a labelled tape. It does not
>> use tapes without label.
>> 
>> I don't understand that question well enough to help you.

BS> If you saying that AMANDA doesn't use tapes without a "label", you have
BS> answered my question. Although why does it say: "This is not an amanda
BS> tape. Insert tape labled "Monday" or a new tape" , when it won't back up
BS> onto a "new" tape.

It says "Give me the tape MONDAY I already have in my list or
add/label a new one". Maybe misleading, ok ...

If you read your amanda.conf, there is the labelstr-parameter that
says :

> labelstr "^@DEFAULT_CONFIG@[0-9][0-9]*$"      # label constraint regex: all 
> tapes must match

All tapes must match. Quite explicit to me.

BS> Thanks for the feedback guys. I would like to see a nicer way around
BS> doing a "forced" backup outside of ones cycle.

What is bad with "amadmin force"?
What is your goal?

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at