On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 8:17am, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote

> But that same night when my cron job tried to kick off the backup:
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [rewinding tape: No medium found].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: isymmdaily09.
> 
> And yes, the tape is in the drive. It's still in there now, hasn't been 
> touched. This has happened to me almost every day for the last week. So 
> it's not just this tape. I've cleaned the drive, turned the drive off, 
> bounced the box...all of the little things.

And amflush works when you come in the next day?

Are there any messages in /var/log/messages when amdump kicks off at 
night?

Are the janitors turning off your tape drive at night?  ;)

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University