On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Olaf Seidel wrote:
> I have problems with amlabel. Sometimes, when I label a tape,
> there are no problems and the process takes a minute or so. And
> sometimes (2 out of 6 tapes), Amanda says, that it is writing the
> label to the tape and when the checking label process is going on,
> amanda hangs up. Only a reboot will make tape access possible.
I had a roughly similar problem. I found that amlabel put the tape drive
into a state where I had to power-cycle the drive to allow the system to
talk to it again if I failed to specify the '-f' switch. All was well if
I specified '-f'. This was on an HP 735/99 running HP-UX 10.20 with all
of HP's latest SCSI patches, connected via its narrow single-ended
interface to an Exabyte 8505XL drive, and Amanda 2.4.2 release. Since all
of my subsequent Amanda backups to this drive have succeeded without
incident, I don't think there are any hardware problems.
By the way, I must give high praise to Amanda. It gave me a little
trouble at first, especially the build on HP-UX, but is now working very
well on two servers. I bought the "Unix Backup and Recovery" book and did
not regret it. In addition, the "support" on this list is as good as much
of what one gets in the commercial world in my experience. Thanks to all
concerned.
Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
California State University, Northridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. I posted my HP-UX experiences and their solution at FAQ-O-Matic.
