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In the meantime, I found something more or less interesting:

I have no trouble writing or readin to tape as stated before.

While I'm writing my own script for tape backup, I found that the...

for amlabel.20140116131853.debug :

Thu Jan 16 13:18:53 2014: thd-0x2486780: amlabel: pid 24503 ruid 500 euid 500 version 3.3.5: start at Thu Jan 16 13:18:53 2014
Thu Jan 16 13:18:53 2014:...

the amcheck-device.20140116100257.debug is in fact a sequence of the same messages; one for every tape in the changer:

<begin of the log>
Thu Jan 16 10:02:57 2014: thd-0x1199b40: amcheck-device:...

In meantime, I tried following test to find why the device is locked but could not find any.

[[email protected] ~]# find /proc/ -wholename '/proc/*/fd/*' -ls | grep -i "nst"
find:...

for the record, this is what amcheck gives me:

[[email protected]]$ amcheck set01
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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Holding disk /amanda/holding/set01/hd1: 176644096...

Hi,

Because of the good comments, I decided to give amanda community version a try instead of custom tape archiving scripts.

When I did a test with virtual tapes, all went well but now I try to...