Yogish wrote:

Hi all

I am facing problems with the tapes. Everytime I try to run amcheck,amverify or amdump it says its expecting a new tape. Here are the results it puts out when I run amcheck Amanda Tape Server Host Check

-----------------------------
Holding disk /home/amanda: 29635568 KB disk space available, that's plenty
ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error
       (expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 0.016 seconds

I strongly believe that the amanda.conf you send is not the one
that is used!  Or you changed it very recently.

From your amanda.conf:

> tapedev "/dev/st0"

This is wrong: it is the rewinding device, and if I remember correctly
I pointed out this and other errors in your amanda.conf a few weeks ago:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/46994

But the amcheck above says it uses /dev/nst0, so assume that the
current amanda.conf is a different one...

It could be that by using the rewinding device, you accidently
overwrote the label.  Was this what happened?

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Paul @ Home