Thanks everyone for helping.

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Thanks again...until next time.

Max.

Paul Bijnens wrote:

Max Waterman wrote:

I am not really sure. Maybe this :

driver: result time 6.776 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [cannot overwrite active tape DailySet101]

It seems that the very first time you ran the backup for '/etc' it
worked fine. See:
  http://reality.sgiweb.org/maxw/tmp/amanda/log.20040623.0.mail )

This is how a normal run looks like.

For the next test, you seem to be using the same tape.
But you instructed to amanda ("tapecycle XXX") that she will not
overwrite an active tape.  So she cannot write to that tape.

She falls back to so called "degraded mode" backups dumping to
the holdingdisk.  You also have specified "reserve 100" (that's the
default if you didn't change it), meaning that in degraded mode,
100% of the holdingdisk is reserved for incremental backups.

But the only disklistentry was a new one, and amanda cannot
make an incremental backup when there is no full backup to base
it on.  Then she gives up.

Solution:  while testing, you can "amrmtape" the testing tape,
or you need to give more tapes (until you have "tapecycle" number
of tapes).