> 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.

Amanda (and myself) are the only things (I know of) on this machine.
I just did a amtape show and 5 out of 14 tapes had no labels. I am investigating
one of the tapes to see if I can recover any data from the tape.

If this is a defect, it is a bit of a nasty one. At lest I can tell the "correct"
label of the tape from the barcode.
 
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