Hello!  Amanda is running yet it is writing to the holding disk instead
of to tape because "The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape."
Backups are still being performed.  If you want to specifically reuse
(overwrite) the first tape, use amrmtape to remove it and amlabel to
relabel it (you will want to use the "-f" flag).  This will signal
Amanda that the tape is free to be used again (prior to a full
dumpcycle).

Paul

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 19:17 +0100, Prashant Ramhit wrote: 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am on a test system and need to test a backup. But cannot test it as 
> its not allowing me to run it more than once a day.
> 
> In the logs/ mail I receive this
> 
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
> 
> And my tape schedule is
> 
> # using one tape daily for 5 days
> dumpcycle 1 week
> runspercycle 5
> runtapes 1
> tapecycle 6 tapes
> 
> # usetimestamps is set to yes for multiple backup per day
> usetimestamps yes
> 
> 
> Please tell me what is wrong and what i can do to fix it.
> 
> Many thanks
> Prashant