> How are you forcing the dumps to stay in holding disk?
> May be the taper error could be a consequence of that.

In amanda.conf:

tapedev                 "/dev/fridaytape"
autoflush

In crontab:

0 14 * * 1-4 /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -c -m genepi
0 19 * * 1-4 /usr/local/sbin/amdump genepi
30 12 * * 5 ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/fridaytape; /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m genepi
0 19 * * 5 /usr/local/sbin/amdump genepi; rm /dev/fridaytape

Note I do the amcheck at 12:30 on Friday so I can leave early if
possible. :)

Steve
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