Hi Vicki,

Vicki Stanfield wrote:

I am using amanda and have been happy with it, but now there is a 20GB dump in my holding area and amanda has repeatedly tried flush it to tape and flushed nothing to the tape. I am taking care of the 20GB dump file, but I now need to reset amanda to expect tape 0038 which had no data dumped to it. How do I do this?

are you sure that no active backups might be on that tape ?
to make sure, check it using "amadmin <config> find | grep 0038".
if you're sure nothing really required is on 0038, do an amrmtape
for this tape and amlabel it again as "0038".

I am getting ready to split up my amanda config to prevent the problem in the future, although truthfully, I do not understand how this problem arose. I am investigating and will likely have a question about it in the future.

"amflush <config>" should clean things up and dump all holding disks
for <config> to tape. if it doesn't, go and read logs (most setups will
write log files into /tmp/amanda/ ...
if you see files on your holding disk and do not care about it (i would),
do an "amcleanup <config>", but i would 1st search why amflush doesn't work.
anyways, if you do an "amcleanup", you might have to live without the 
possibility
to do a desaster restore (depends on your config).

 Cheers, Peter