--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:54:34 -0500 "Johnson, S" <sjohnson AT 
edina.k12.mn DOT us> wrote:

> I've been working on my original problem of the service not seemingly
> running under the user Amanda when I think I discovered another issue,
> perhaps related to my problem.  When I do an amcheck -m DailySet1 I get
> the following email sent to me:
>  
>  
> DailySet1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE
> ------------------------------------------------------
>  
> Holding disk /var/tmp: 7250452 KB disk space available, that's plenty
> ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error
>        (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
> NOTE: it will be created on the next run
> ------------------------------------------------------
>  
>  
> I was able to run system level commands like
> mt -f /dev/nst0 erase
>  
> And I was able to backup directly to the tape device ok.
>  
> I only found a couple of other people that were experiencing an issue
> similar to what I'm seeing.  One stated that a "mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk
> 0" fixed their issue.  I tried this and got the same message.
>  
> I've tried 3 different brand new out of the wrapper tapes so I don't
> think it's a tape issue.  I'm also able to backup by copying files
> directly to the tape drive.
>  
> Any ideas?
> Thanks much.

Were you able to successfully run amlabel on the tape first?

Frank



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