Thanks for you help greatly appreaiated anyway I re run the amlabel and
amcheck and the mt commands here is the output:


myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # su amanda -c
"/local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 DailySet101"

Amanda Tape Server Host Check

-----------------------------

Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 140763012 KB disk space available, that's
plenty

NOTE: skipping tape-writable test

Tape DailySet101 label ok

Server check took 0.013 seconds


Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

--------------------------------

Client check: 0 hosts checked in 0.006 seconds, 0 problems found


(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p4)

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # mt -t /dev/st0 rewind

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # dd if=/dev/st0 bs=32k

AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE X TAPE DailySet101



1+0 records in

1+0 records out

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # 

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # su amanda -c
"/local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 DailySet101"

Amanda Tape Server Host Check

-----------------------------

Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 140763012 KB disk space available, that's
plenty

NOTE: skipping tape-writable test

Tape DailySet101 label ok

Server check took 0.013 seconds


Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

--------------------------------

Client check: 0 hosts checked in 0.006 seconds, 0 problems found


(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p4)

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # mt -t /dev/st0 rewind

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # dd if=/dev/st0 bs=32k

AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE X TAPE DailySet101



1+0 records in

1+0 records out

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 # 

I believe I have sorted this baby with the help of this list.


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 16:14 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: 
> Chuck Amadi wrote:
> > Hi I run the commands as instructed.
> > 
> > mt -t /dev/st0 rewind
> > dd if=/dev/st0 bs=32k count=1 > label-results
> > 1+0 records in
> > 1+0 records out
> > 
> > file label-results
> > label-results: raw G3 data, byte-padded
> 
> 
> That's indeed not an amanda tape :-)
> 
> When I do it:
> 
> $ mt -t /dev/st0 rewind
> $ dd if=/dev/st0 bs=32k
> AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20050322 TAPE DAILY-08
> 
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 
> 
> 
> The label is just an ascii-string and first word
> should be "AMANDA:".
> The ascii-nuls don't show on an xterm.
> 
> 
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