On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:40:45PM +1000, shaun wrote:
> hi hoping someone  can shed some light, prob very simple.
> last night i ran into an error > my hard drive allocated for amanda 
> dumps ran out of space.
> now today i have tried to amflush and then amdump but i am getting an 
> error that day-04 (the expected tape (directory)) is not an amanda tape. 
> not sure what to do?
> 
> 
> Holding disk /home2/holdingdisk: 72656852 KB disk space available, 
> that's plentyamcheck-server: slot 1: date 20030522 label day-01 (active 
> tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20030522 label day-02 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20030526 label day-03 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 4: not an amanda tape
> amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20030522 label day-05 (active tape)
> ERROR: label day-04 or new tape not found in rack
>       (expecting tape day-04 or a new tape)

Consider the possibility that the report is exactly what it says.
Whatever is in slot 4 is not an amanda tape, is what used to be
tape "day-04" but has been overwritten, is what used to be tape
"day-04" but is now defective, or ???

Can you read part of it with tools like dd and determine what
data is on the tape?

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