Hi
After completing the first dump cycle, I thought it was time to test Amanda,
to make sure that I could restore in case of emergency. It's a good thing
that I did. amrecover comes out with 'UNKNOWN file' whenever I try to
restore anything. I read the docs and tried to read the headers, and got this:
# mt rewind
# mt fsf NN
# dd if=/dev/rmt/0bn bs=32k count=1
AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20010615 TAPE xx0
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
Looks like the tape is hosed, tried a random selection and it looks like
I've never completed a run successfully here, although never had an error...
Any ideas? This is a Tandberg DLT 7000 running Amanda 2.4.2p2 on Solaris 2.6...
the only clue I have is something about Variable Length I/O in syslog, if
anyone has a working st.conf for this drive in Sol2.6 then I can eliminate
that possibility.
FYI, Tape type definition I'm using:
define tapetype DLT7000-IV {
comment "DLT7000 with DLTtape IV uncompressed"
length 35000 mbytes
filemark 8 kbytes
speed 5000 kbytes
}
Thanks
- John
