Michael D Schleif schrieb:
> Please, ANY ideas ???
> 
> 
> amanda is version 2.5.1p1-2.1 , running on debian:
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux erda 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST 2007 x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Trying to setup a VXA-2 manual load tape drive with amanda.
> 
> Same tape that I used earlier today with amtapetype, and successfully
> got a tapetype definition.
> 
> Now, I want to label this same tape, and perform the first backup.
> 
>     # sudo -u backup amlabel -f DailySet1 backup.001
>     rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape (Invalid argument)
>     rewinding, writing label backup.001, checking label
>     amlabel: not an amanda tape (Invalid argument)
> 
> 
> What do you think?

(I thought: "Should I reply or not?" ;-) )

What's the definition of labelstr in your amanda.conf?
Your label does not fit that definition.

Stefan