On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:15:19PM -0500, Henson, George Mr JMLFDC wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:33:37AM -0500, Henson, George Mr 
> > JMLFDC wrote:
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > I have a HP Sure Store E Silo (20 slots/2 LTO Gen 1 Drives) 
> > connected to my HP/UX 11i server with amanda-2.4.4 installed. 
> > I wrote an Amanda label to every tape in the silo. Last night 
> > my backup asked for Tape Daily000012. The changer (mtx) 
> > loaded the tape (which I had labeled Daily000012), but the 
> > tape had no Amanda label on it.
> > 
> > 
...
> 
> > Has Daily000012 ever been used by amanda before so that
> > you are sure it once had a label?
> 
> No it has not been used. It was a new tape. I am sure there was a label on 
> the media
> because there I ran: 
> 
> amtape <confname> reset
> amtape <confname> show 
> 
> before I started running Amanda in production at that time all tapes had a 
> label


I've not heard of amanda trashing labels,
maybe you have uncovered a defect somewhere.

Consider also that nothing prevents other apps from writing
to the tape and trashing a label.

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