On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:59:56AM -0400, Marty Shannon, RHCE wrote:
> shaun wrote:
> > 
> > cheers for your help marty
> > but that is exactly what confused me.  day-04 has been labelled by
> > amlabel, and when i try and label it again i recieve an error message
> > stating that day-04 is already labelled..

Because it is in the tapelist file.

> > and jon thanks again you ve been alot of help over the past couple weeks.
> > perhaps an amrmtape to remove it and then label it again??

If you don't need the data on that tape.
That will clean up the index files too.

But what if you try to label it day-99?
Does it complain it already is an amanda tape or does it happily
go and do it?  Or some other error?
You can always amrmtape if it really labels it day-99 and relabel it.

> 
> Urk.  We may both have messed up on the "reply" vs. "reply all"
> issue.  Your message came only to me, so I repost to the list
> as well.
> 
> I believe that you can use "amlabel -f" to "force" a tape to be
> relabeled, but only do so with extreme caution -- it is still
> possible that there may be retrievable data on that tape (and
> you could confuse Amanda by zapping it, if so)!  (I must
> confess to being a bit rusty on my Amanda skills....)

Which ever you try, I'd suggest you do some checking for the integity
of the tape.  Write a LARGE file(s) to the tape and read it back.

FMI (For My, not Your Info :) are there any good ways suggested for
checking if a tape is still good?
jl
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