Try “amlabel -f ….. “ for “force”. Be sure it’s the right tape, but I use it all the time. Deb
> On Apr 10, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes. It was less effective than I might have hoped. :-/ > > [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amlabel NMHPVPR NMHPVPR0001 > Reading label... > Found label 'NMHPVPR0001' but it is not in the tapelist file. > Not writing label. > Not writing label. > > Do I need to erase the label somehow first? > > -Sandro > > -----Original Message----- > From: Debra S Baddorf [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:13 PM > To: Ochressandro Rettinger <[email protected]> > Cc: Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: Re: amflush > > Did you do another “amlabel” after doing “amrmtape”? > Deb Baddorf > > >> On Apr 10, 2017, at 2:16 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I’m having problems with amflush and the tapelist. >> >> My backups didn’t work last night, so I swapped the tape and >> ran amflush. Amflush hung, so I tried to stop it and run it again, without >> changing the tape. In order to do that, I ran amrmtape on the tape, and >> removed it from the tapelist file. This was apparently a mistake, because >> now I can’t get amanda to do anything with that tape. >> >> [amandabackup@archivist ~]$ amcheck NMHPVPR Amanda Tape Server Host >> Check >> ----------------------------- >> NOTE: Holding disk '/holding': 4085694464 KB disk space available, >> using 2147483648 KB as requested FIPS mode initialized FIPS mode >> initialized FIPS mode initialized FIPS mode initialized slot 1: volume >> 'NMHPVPR0001' is not in the tapelist all slots have been loaded Taper >> scan algorithm did not find an acceptable volume. >> (expecting a new volume) >> ERROR: No acceptable volumes found >> Server check took 0.217 seconds >> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check >> -------------------------------- >> Client check: 4 hosts checked in 1.217 seconds. 0 problems found. >> (brought to you by Amanda 3.4) >> >> Is there a way to add this tape back into the tapelist >> so that I can use it to finish my amflush dump? (I don’t actually >> care if the dump is any good or not at this point, I just want the >> thing cleaned up so I can run regular backups tonight.) >> >> -Sandro >
