I am fairly new to amanda, but some things have caught my eye doing the
initial configuration. First of all, the complete lack of documentation on
configuration files and options is a bit disturbing, the most useful reference
I have found so far is the Amanda chapter out of Unix backup & recovery at
backupcentral.com, other than that, there is very little information
available. Next, I can't believe some of the logic error's (maybe my logic)
that I've experienced, like amcheck trying to rewind the specified
NON-REWINDABLE tape device to check the label on the tape and continue with
it's write testing. I have 2 options in my amanda.conf file
tapedev "/dev/nst0"
rawtapedev "/dev/st0"
not only can I NOT find a good listing of all available options in the
amanda.conf, I am having trouble determining how amcheck see's /dev/nst0 as
the device to rewind and test on and not the specified raw device which seems
to work just fine if reversed (only for the writeable check), if anyone out
there has experienced problems like this I would most definitely appreciate a
response.
Thanks in advance,
Tom Hudak
Jr. Systems Administrator
Sistina Software Inc.
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