I just realized that I replied to an individual user instead of the group and 
user - my bad.  I'm going to repost for future reference on others possibly 
running into the same problem:
--------------------------
 
Ok, I must be missunderstanding something here... Sorry for my lack of 
knowledge (this is my first time setting up Amanda).
 
I was going off the aassumption that the backup package would automatically 
label a tape inserted into the drive on backup (like backupexec / arcserve).
 
I just played around with it a bit after reading the man page on it.  I was 
able to label a tape with DailySet111.  After running the amlabel, I was able 
to run amcheck and I didn't receive an e-mail (which I assume is the way it's 
supposed to be).
 
Where can I find more information on the amlabel piece (other than man)?  Is 
there a way to automate this?  The person that will be changing the tapes is 
not very technical at all, actually quite technophobic...
 
 Thanks much!
  Scott

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Frank Smith [mailto:fsmith AT hoovers DOT com] 
        Sent: Tue 10/14/2003 1:24 PM 
        To: Johnson, S; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
        Cc: 
        Subject: Re: 
        
        

        --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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