Labeling the tapes at this point in time is not working it is writing to
the tape0-status file the errors reported below. When I have done a show
previously Amanda reports that an unlabeled tape is not an Amanda tape.

Barry Haycock
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:58 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: error messages

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:23:54AM +1000, Barry Haycock wrote:
> I have inherited an Amanda backup system at the place I work at.
> As this system is a remote access only I had a staff member insert new
> tapes in to the server which is a Solaris 8 using version 2.4.4
writing
> to a sun L20 using dlt tapes 20/40. This system was working after I
took
> it over but was not being maintained. I have on the system 2 configs
> daily and monthly backup. After the new tapes went in (I haven't
labeled
> them yet) which are to be used under the monthly backup config in
order
> to find what slot Amanda thought that they were in I ran a "amtape
> monthly show" since that time when ever any Amanda command is run (not
> just amtape) I get the following errors written to tape0-status at a
> great rate of knots and if left unchecked will fill up the file system
> can anyone point me in the right direction of what is causing the
error
> messages and how to resolve them.

Labeling the tapes would be a good start.

How can amtape "show" you what tapes are in
which slots if they have no "names" aka "labels"

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