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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 99 12:29:52 -0500
From:      FreeBSD Questions <freebsd@netsys.hn>
To:        "John R. Jackson" <jrj@gandalf.cc.purdue.edu>
Cc:        "amanda-users@amanda.org" <amanda-users@amanda.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Amanda Experts: amrecover doesn't work?
Message-ID:  <199901191829.MAA20768@mail.netsys.hn>

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-- [ From: FreeBSD Questions * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

> >amrestore:   0: skipping start of tape: date 19990117 label VOL02
> >amrestore:   1: skipping internet.netsys.hn.sd0a.19990117.0
> >amrestore: missing file header block
> >amrestore:   2: reached end of tape: date 19990117
> 
> This says the tape was labeled OK and that the first image was OK (as much
as
> amrestore cared) but after it had done an "fsf 1" to get past that image
it got
> end of tape (zero back from a read).  What happens if you mount VOL02 and
do
> this:
> 
>   mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
>   dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
>   dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
>   dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
>   dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
> 
Here are the results:

12:25 mail: {103} mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
12:26 mail: {104} dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
32768 bytes transferred in 2.378963 secs (13774 bytes/sec)
12:27 mail: {105} dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
65536 bytes transferred in 0.047145 secs (1390094 bytes/sec)
12:27 mail: {106} dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.011240 secs (0 bytes/sec)
12:27 mail: {107} dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.011263 secs (0 bytes/sec)
12:27 mail: {108}

> 
> >Pablo Quintana
> 
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj@purdue.edu
 



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