Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:51:21 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amanda and Tapedev Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000822094905.00b05ec0@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000822065115.00b4de20@mail.pyramus.com>
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With Amanda, you definitely need to use "/dev/nrsa0", the non-rewinding
device. Did you use amlabel to give the tape an Amanda label? If not,
label the tape and then run amcheck to see if Amanda can read the tape
correctly.
Oscar
At 07:01 AM 8/22/00 -0700, Blake Swensen, you wrote:
>I guess I just don't understand what Amanda is looking for in terms of the
>tapedev parameter in the config file.
>
>I have set it to tapedev "/dev/nrsa0" and to tapedev "/dev/rsa0" (which
>both work using mt). I have also set it to null hoping that amlabel will
>just use the default.
>
>Amlabel reports: "rewindingamlabel: no tape online".
>
>The tape is an HP-T4000s Taravan SCSI tape, and it works flawlessly with
>dump and tar.
>
>The tape definition to the following:
>
>define tapetype HP-T4000s {
> comment "Hewlett-Packard Taravan 4GB SCSI Tape"
> length 4200 mbytes
> filemark 48 kbytes
> speed 3.30 mbytes
>}
>
>Any help on what amanda is looking for?
>
>Peace,
>Blake
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