Thank you very much for your answer.
After I was worried all night and I don't slept quite relaxed, this
morning I discover that the tape works! And it is the same tape I expected
to use:
[root@server /root]# mt -f /dev/nst0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=5, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (81010000):
EOF ONLINE IM_REP_EN
I really cannot figure out what could happen meantime. It is posible that
collocation guys realize that they made a mistake and fix it?
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote:
> To tell you the truth, I've heard nothing at all good about OnStream
> tape drives. But, don't take my word for it. I haven't personally
> used them.
Damn, this is usefull to know, anyway...
> Air conditioners and dust filters won't help much if my hunch is
> correct and the tape drive isn't a good one.
I see...
> Not really. All you can check is whether it performs I/O with or
> without errors. If "mt -f status" gives you an error, that's about
> as much information as you're going to get from the OS.
> If it passes "mt -f status" try
> dd if=/dev/st0 of=/dev/null bs=1k count=10
> and see if the tape will read a few blocks.
This is very useful to know.
> No good? Have 'em change the tape and see if you still get the same
> error.
Right.
> What I'm trying to say is that if you have a big enough hard drive and
> a tape drive where you are, it is sometimes easier to manage tape
> backups, than over the phone or by email.
>
> rsync -e ssh -avx --delete remotehost:/whatever/path /where/it/is/locally
>
> gives a very economical way to keep a local directory in synch
> with a remote one. Only changed material is actually copied.
Thank you for this information. Unfortunatelly, my line is very poor here
and the initial transfer of about 5 GB is out of discussion. But at least
I could save the amanda's index for my backups, for the worst case of a
total wipe.
> If that is not an option, well, I guess it isn't an option.
:-)
> Well, good luck. I hope you find a way to resolve it!
It is resolved somehow, but I don't know how :-)
Anyway, experience you have shared here it is very usefull for me and I
guess not only for me.
Thank you, Dan
Radu Filip
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